{"id":368538,"date":"2026-08-11T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:50:10","slug":"broward-detectives-make-arrest-in-liquor-store-theft-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368538\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward detectives make arrest in liquor store theft ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kendrick Wallace.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released security camera footage detectives say shows men grabbing bottles from a liquor store and walking out without paying.\" alt=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released security camera footage detectives say shows men grabbing bottles from a liquor store and walking out without paying.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released security camera footage detectives say shows men grabbing bottles from a liquor store and walking out without paying.<\/p>\n<p>            Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p>Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office detectives arrested a man they say repeatedly stole from several liquor stores in the Oakland Park area over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Wallace, 33, was arrested July 30, but the sheriff\u2019s office said Tuesday that detectives are looking for two other men suspected of helping him with the thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say the heists weren\u2019t complex. Wallace and his partners would simply walk in the stores, grab bottles of booze and walk out without paying, BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro said.<\/p>\n<p>The men targeted several ABC Fine Wines and Liquor stores between June and July, Caro said, adding that detectives believe they also hit other liquor stores throughout Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/accomplice2.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"0\" title=\"accomplice2.jpg\" alt=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released stills from liquor store security cameras who detectives say shows men who stole bottles of booze over the summer at several locations.\"\/>                                                                                    The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released stills from liquor store security cameras who detectives say shows men who stole bottles of booze over the summer at several locations.                                                                                                                                                                        Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office released store security camera footage showing the men stealing the alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, who has a history of felony convictions in Broward County on charges ranging from grand theft to burglary going back to 2011, remains in BSO\u2019s main jail in Fort Laurderdale on multiple retail and petit theft counts. A judge set his bond at $10,000. Information on his legal counsel was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/accoplice.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"0\" title=\"accoplice.jpg\" alt=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released stills from liquor store security cameras who detectives say shows men who stole bottles of booze over the summer at several locations.\"\/>                                                                                    The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released stills from liquor store security cameras who detectives say shows men who stole bottles of booze over the summer at several locations.                                                                                                                                                                        Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office is asking anyone with information on Wallace\u2019s alleged accomplices to call 954-202-3121 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 or submit a tip online at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/browardcrimestoppers.org\/\">browardcrimestoppers.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released security camera footage detectives say shows men grabbing bottles from a liquor store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-368538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}