More than a dozen people have been arrested & more are being sought in connection with a more than $1 million car theft ring in Miami-Dade.
After months of investigating, Miami-Dade Police said they've made multiple grand theft arrests of a group of criminals who they said have been selling stolen cars.
Miami-Dade Det. Luis Sierra said months ago the police department's Sea Port Operations detectives received a call of cars being shipped out of the state that were possibly stolen.
After investigating, they realized the cars had altered vins. The cars were rented out or sold & in some cases even sold to dealerships.
"It's been a very organized group of criminals that have been renting out cars and getting cars by other means & re-vinning them & in fact trying to re-sell them to dealerships throughout the state & throughout the country," Sierra said. "It’s been several cars, a bit over $1 million in automobile sales."
The stolen cars with falsified titles were sold at the AutoNationa Ford in Miami, the AutoNation Chevrolet in Coral Gables & a CarMax in Doral.
"AutoNation fully supports law enforcement’s efforts to investigate and prosecute any form of fraud related to motor vehicles, titling & affiliated records. We want to make sure consumers are protected,' AutoNation said.
"Goes to show you we are in Miami & unfortunately there is a lot of fraud here," Sierra said. "How they were able to sell these cars & make them legit is something that we are still trying to figure out."
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Source: NBC Miami
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