{"id":378612,"date":"2026-08-22T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378612\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:38:21","slug":"opa-locka-mom-used-13-year-old-daughter-as-robbery-getaway-driver-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378612\/","title":{"rendered":"Opa-locka mom used 13-year-old daughter as robbery getaway driver, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said an Opa-locka mother accused of robbing an auto parts store had an unusual partner in crime: her 13-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Opa-locka Police responded to the robbery on Wednesday at the Advance Auto Parts at 13400 Northwest 27th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, an employee said a woman entered and started grabbing several items then exited the store without paying.<\/p>\n<p>When employees questioned her, the woman reached in the purse area of her clothing and said &#8220;I have a gun and will shoot,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>An employee noticed there were two other people in her getaway vehicle, including one who drove them away, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Police began searching for the vehicle and a gray BMW matching the description was found, while 41-year-old Aviouse Elona Lucas was taken into custody, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>An employee identified Lucas as the robbery suspect, and Lucas admitted to stealing the merchandise and placing her hand in her bag to scare the employees, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas also admitted that two of her children, ages 4 and 13, were inside her car and that her 13-year-old daughter drove her, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Lucas on charges including armed robbery, child abuse with no great bodily harm and contributing to the delinquency of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas was booked into jail and on Thursday, appeared before a judge, who set her bond at 10,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said an Opa-locka mother accused of robbing an auto parts store had an unusual partner in crime:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,69746],"class_list":["post-378612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-opa-locka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378612","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=378612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}