{"id":390623,"date":"2026-09-04T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:40:10","slug":"man-once-linked-to-russian-package-stealing-ring-now-accused-of-fedex-rolex-theft-in-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390623\/","title":{"rendered":"Man once linked to Russian package-stealing ring now accused of FedEx Rolex theft in Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 4, 2026 at 2:36 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-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\/09\/FQJWMSJL2NHKDFVZ2F6IKAAJDA.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Vladimir Kudyakov (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A Hollywood man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/21\/man-accused-of-stealing-high-dollar-fedex-parcels-for-russian-fraud-group\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/21\/man-accused-of-stealing-high-dollar-fedex-parcels-for-russian-fraud-group\/\">facing a charge<\/a> in Miami-Dade County in connection with a case in which authorities said he was intercepting and stealing high-value FedEx packages on behalf of a Russian fraud group is now suspected of a similar crime in Broward County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/04\/acusan-a-hombre-previamente-vinculado-a-red-rusa-de-robo-de-paquetes-de-robar-un-rolex-enviado-por-fedex-en-broward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/04\/acusan-a-hombre-previamente-vinculado-a-red-rusa-de-robo-de-paquetes-de-robar-un-rolex-enviado-por-fedex-en-broward\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the Broward crime happened on May 13 in Pompano Beach, a day before Vladimir Kudyakov, 43, was suspected of stealing a Rolex in Doral and a week before he would be arrested at a downtown Miami FedEx store as police said he attempted to \u201cfraudulently retrieve another package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had been suspected of stealing a package containing a $53,500 Rolex at a Doral FedEx Office Print &amp; Ship Center on May 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He initially faced multiple felony charges, though, as of Friday, Miami-Dade court records showed that only a charge of possessing or making equipment to counterfeit drivers licenses remained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies said in the Pompano Beach incident, Kudyakov went to the victim\u2019s condominium building and gave a FedEx driver fake identity documents matching the victim\u2019s personal information in order to steal a $7,190 Rolex Datejust watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police took him into custody on grand theft and identity theft charges on Wednesday, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He no longer appeared in Broward jail records as of Friday.<\/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\/09\/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:\u00a0September 4, 2026 at 2:36 PM Updated:\u00a0September 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandVladimir Kudyakov (BSO) POMPANO BEACH, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-390623","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\/390623","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=390623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}