{"id":376717,"date":"2026-08-20T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:20:55","slug":"opa-locka-mom-used-13-year-old-daughter-as-robbery-getaway-driver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376717\/","title":{"rendered":"Opa-locka mom used 13-year-old daughter as robbery getaway driver, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM<\/p>\n<p>Cops: Her 4-year-old was also in the carlead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/XNBIA7I3YJDO5CC4EVYA7XLWVU.jpg\"  width=\"993\" height=\"558\"\/>Aviouse Lucas (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OPA-LOCKA, Fla. \u2014 An Opa-locka woman is facing three felony charges after police said she enlisted her 13-year-old daughter as her getaway driver after committing a robbery at an auto parts store on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/madre-de-opa-locka-uso-a-su-hija-de-13-anos-como-conductora-de-fuga-durante-robo-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/madre-de-opa-locka-uso-a-su-hija-de-13-anos-como-conductora-de-fuga-durante-robo-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Opa-locka police said Aviouse Lucas, 41, walked into the Advance Auto Parts at 13400 NW 27th Ave. at around 4:15 p.m., grabbed several items without paying and left the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When confronted by a store employee, police said Lucas \u201cplaced her hand inside the purse area of her clothing\u201d and said, \u201cI have a gun and will shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the employee backed off as Lucas got in her BMW with two of her children, aged 4 and 13, inside. Her 13-year-old daughter was the one behind the wheel and drove her off, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the employee provided vehicle and license plate information and they they went to Lucas\u2019 home on Northwest 142nd Lane, finding both Lucas and the BMW there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said she admitted to the robbery, having her children inside and having her 13-year-old be her getaway driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrested Lucas on charges of armed robbery, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as \u201cto be set\u201d as of Thursday morning, records show.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM Cops: Her 4-year-old was also in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-376717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376717","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=376717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}