A man was arrested after a brazen heist of nearly $2 million worth of iPhones in Doral ended in his capture in northern Florida, authorities said.
Jeffery Moore, 61, is facing grand theft, conspiracy to commit grand theft and organized scheme to defraud charges in connection with the heist, according to an arrest warrant.
The alleged incident happened on March 19, when Doral Police responded to the FedEx facility at 10000 Northwest 21st Street for the theft of 38 boxes of iPhone 17 Pro Max phones.
The boxes contained about 1,799 phones worth nearly $1.9 million, the warrant said.
Two days earlier, on March 17, an employee at the FedEx facility had received a call from a man who claimed he was from a company and said their warehouse was undergoing renovations so they were unable to receive deliveries and they wanted employees to pick up a shipment, the warrant said.
A man arrived at the facility on March 19 with a photo ID badge on his chest and employee ID, and an email believed to be from the company was received saying the package would be picked up in person, the warrant said.
The suspect, who’d arrived in a 20-foot U-Haul truck with an unidentified person, was allowed to enter the facility and go to the loading bay where the 38 boxes were loaded onto the truck, the warrant said.
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 the suspect and other person, the warrant said.
But the suspect and other person got in the U-Haul and fled with the iPhones shortly before 10 a.m., the warrant said.
Hours later, around 5:40 p.m., 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, the driver, was detained and had matched the description of the person who stole the iPhones, authorities said.
Inside the U-Haul was the stolen shipment of iPhones, 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.
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