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Do not touch the exhibits. That is the restriction in most ar museums. But a man from Florida did more than just touch a Porsche 930 Turbo on display at the Sarasota Classic Car Museum. He stole it and registered it using fake documents. He is now in police custody.
Some may have watched too many action movies over the years and end up believing they are movie characters in real life. A 36-year old man from Florida, Daniel Boyce, must have confused reality with a movie scene.
Back in June, he came up with a plan to steal a 1977 Porsche 911 930 Turbo. Not from someone’s driveway, not from the shopping mall parking lot, but from a classic car museum!
He was no Memphis Reines, and the car theft obviously took more than 60 seconds to be completed. But he somehow managed to do it. To get the Porsche out of the museum, he had to move seven other cars out of the way. And no security guard seemed to have bothered him in the process. Actually, the museum staff kind of helped him in the process: they left the car keys inside, in the footwell area.
The burglary alarm went off, but when police arrived at the scene, it was too late. The metallic brown coupe was long gone. A surveillance camera caught footage of the car, rated at around $250,000, driving away at 05.15 am. Another camera placed outside the museum showed an unknown person entering the property.
But that was all the investigators had at the time. The authorities got a tip several days later from someone who called the police station to tell them they had seen Daniel Boyce with a brown 911 at a warehouse.
By the time the police officers found him, he had already registered the car using a VIN number of a Porsche that had been crashed 23 years earlier and sold to a salvage yard somewhere in California.
In order to register the car, he came up with an entire file of documents. He had a Maine registration paper, an odometer verification letter, and many others that turned out to be fake. Boyce seemed to have a very smart plan set up, until he listed his own personal cellphone number.
The stolen car was recovered, and Boyce was eventually arrested after failing to show up for a grad theft auto charge. Apparently, it was not the first time he stole a car, but hopefully, it will be his last.
Police found a photo of the stolen Porsche in his phone. He is currently arrested without bond at the Sarasota County Jail in Florida and is facing a felony charge of scheming to defraud. The authorities are still investigating.
Back in June, he came up with a plan to steal a 1977 Porsche 911 930 Turbo. Not from someone’s driveway, not from the shopping mall parking lot, but from a classic car museum!
He was no Memphis Reines, and the car theft obviously took more than 60 seconds to be completed. But he somehow managed to do it. To get the Porsche out of the museum, he had to move seven other cars out of the way. And no security guard seemed to have bothered him in the process. Actually, the museum staff kind of helped him in the process: they left the car keys inside, in the footwell area.
The burglary alarm went off, but when police arrived at the scene, it was too late. The metallic brown coupe was long gone. A surveillance camera caught footage of the car, rated at around $250,000, driving away at 05.15 am. Another camera placed outside the museum showed an unknown person entering the property.
But that was all the investigators had at the time. The authorities got a tip several days later from someone who called the police station to tell them they had seen Daniel Boyce with a brown 911 at a warehouse.
By the time the police officers found him, he had already registered the car using a VIN number of a Porsche that had been crashed 23 years earlier and sold to a salvage yard somewhere in California.
In order to register the car, he came up with an entire file of documents. He had a Maine registration paper, an odometer verification letter, and many others that turned out to be fake. Boyce seemed to have a very smart plan set up, until he listed his own personal cellphone number.
The stolen car was recovered, and Boyce was eventually arrested after failing to show up for a grad theft auto charge. Apparently, it was not the first time he stole a car, but hopefully, it will be his last.
Police found a photo of the stolen Porsche in his phone. He is currently arrested without bond at the Sarasota County Jail in Florida and is facing a felony charge of scheming to defraud. The authorities are still investigating.
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