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In Florida, a robbery without a weapon will get you at least 15 years of imprisonment. Imagine how many years you would get for stealing a car there. My initial guess was 10-15 years, but seems like I am way off the mark. A 53-year-old man happened to take a Porsche Panamera for an extended ‘drive’ from a Florida dealership. Caught and sentenced for the same, this Porsche fan will now spend 30 years behind jail bars thinking about his costly drive. Quite a deal he has landed there.
Porsche fans and enthusiasts have been known to go to great lengths to acquire one or even lay their hands on a car, but our man, Jeffrey Todd Crystal, could not just keep his fandom under control.
Cyrstal visited a Florida Porsche dealership back in 2011, asking about a deal on the Panamera. The sight probably overwhelmed him so much that he decided to have the car at all costs. And pay he did. He paid the dealer with a $109,000 cheque. So what’s wrong there? He had entered the dealership during closing time, well aware that the dealership would not have time to verify his cheque till the next day, so he conned them with an invalid cheque.
The dealer contacted the man twice and while he agreed to make the necessary payment, they never heard from him until two weeks later, when he returned the Panamera. But the odometer reading told quite a long story. The odometer had jumped from 70 to 2,300 miles (113 to 3,700 km). He must have never stopped driving!
The Porsche-fanatic was charged with grand theft auto for over $100,000, as well as for issuing an invalid cheque. Investigators, on research, found that Crystal was on felony probation for fraud and theft. Apparently, he’d bought another Porsche, in 2004, “using a check initially returned ‘Insufficient Funds,’” the report said. Some people never learn do they?
Would you think of doing something like this for your favourite car?
Source:nwfdailynews
