Welcome to Arrest Stories. A thirty-three-year-old man has been arrested in Mount Vernon, New York in connection with the theft of basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover that was stolen in Georgia. Here's what may have happened.
On December fifth, Mount Vernon police received a license plate reader alert around eight p.m. for a vehicle that might contain a wanted party with a warrant out of Lumpkin County, Georgia. Officers located the car with South Carolina plates and observed Anthony Del Rosario walking into a business on East Lincoln Avenue just east of Hutchinson Boulevard. Police followed him into the establishment, detained him, and determined he was the wanted man who triggered the alert.
Del Rosario was arrested under an extraditable warrant and is being held at Westchester County, New York Jail while wanted for crimes in Georgia. A Georgia judge had issued the arrest warrant for Del Rosario on December fifth.
The case stems from the October twentieth theft of Shaquille O'Neal's one hundred eighty thousand dollar custom Range Rover from a business in the Dahlonega area of Georgia. The SUV was supposed to be transported to Louisiana for O'Neal to use at an LSU game that weekend but never arrived at its destination.
According to police reports, the vehicle was removed from the shop under false pretenses. Effortless Motors had arranged transport through FirstLine Trucking LLC, which later claimed its system had been hacked. Del Rosario and accomplices allegedly managed to hack into the transport company's account and used a fraudulent telephone number to impersonate the transport company. The thieves altered pickup instructions and submitted a fake certificate of insurance, which led Effortless to approve the release of the vehicle.
Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrad said he expects more arrests in the case, but the Range Rover itself is probably overseas in the Middle East. One official stated this was part of a larger operation, saying they are taking like forty cars a week and that they found the two main guys, arrested one of them, and the other guy is overseas.
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