A 24-year-old Jamaican girl who as soon as labored as a safety guard at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport’s automotive rental centre is dealing with 13 felony prices after detectives accused her of conspiring with three males to steal a dozen automobiles from Hertz.
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In line with Native 10 Information, Savannah Harsha Phillips, born in Kingston, Jamaica, and now dwelling in Dawn, Florida, appeared Wednesday earlier than Broward County Circuit Choose Thomas J. Coleman for arraignment. Prosecutors say she performed a central function in a theft ring that allowed automobiles to go away the Hertz parking storage with out authorisation on Might 16 and 17.
A Broward Sheriff’s Workplace detective alleged that Phillips used her place to let drivers “exit the Hertz parking storage with out displaying a driver’s licence and pretending to scan the automobiles as they exited.”
The stolen automobiles included a number of Kia K4 sedans, Nissan Altimas, a Hyundai Sonata, a Toyota Corolla, and a Nissan Sentra. Investigators later linked among the automobiles to crimes in different states, together with a black Kia K4 tied to incidents in Texas and a white Toyota Corolla linked to crimes in Virginia.
Detectives stated Phillips had “entry to all Hertz firm automobiles, knew the keys can be inside them, and was conscious of the slowest occasions of enterprise to commit the crime.”
She was arrested at her Dawn dwelling on August 26 and booked into the Paul Rein Detention Facility. Phillips faces prices together with first-degree organised fraud, 5 counts of second-degree grand theft, and 7 counts of third-degree grand theft.
A bond court docket decide set bail at US$62,000 however ordered that she show the funds don’t come from felony proceeds.
