A second man is being sought in connection with a brazen heist of nearly $2 million worth of iPhones in Doral earlier this month, authorities said.
Robert Rashawn Soto is still at large following the March 19 theft at a FedEx facility at 10000 Northwest 21st Street, Doral Police said Tuesday.
Another suspect, 61-year-old Jeffery Moore, was arrested and faces charges of grand theft, conspiracy to commit grand theft and organized scheme to defraud charges in connection with the heist, according to an arrest warrant.
Police said Soto and Moore showed up at the facility posing as employees of Union Logistics and stole 38 boxes containing iPhone 17 Pro Max phones worth nearly $1.9 million.
The pair used fictitious identifications and loaded the phones into a U-Haul, but as the boxes were being loaded the real manager of the company arrived and figured out what was happening and told a FedEx employee to stop them, the warrant said.
But the two men were able to flee and authorities used Air Tags and license plate readers to track down the U-Haul, which was traveling north, authorities said.
Hours after the theft, the U-Haul was stopped on Interstate 75 northbound in Alachua County by Florida Highway Patrol and Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.
Moore, who was driving the U-Haul, was arrested and the phones were recovered, authorities said.
Moore, who the warrant said is a resident of South Carolina, was booked into the Alachua County Jail before he was extradited to Miami-Dade this past Friday, records showed.
He appeared before a Miami-Dade judge on Saturday who set his bond at $2.5 million.
Police said they’re still searching for Soto and the investigation was ongoing.
At a news conference Tuesday, Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez said investigators are reviewing surveillance footage to try to find Soto.
“At this point, all we know is that the second subject who’s wanted left the FedEx warehouse and was at some point released or dropped off by the one that we arrested, we don’t know where that took place, we’re still scouring a lot of minutes of video footage between here and Alachua County,” he said.
Lopez said Soto is known in the South Florida community.
“If you know this individual, do the right thing and call us,” he added.
