24‑Year‑Old Woman Arrested Trying to Buy $101K Tesla in Florida ‘Admitted’ Being Part of Chinese Crime Organization
On Monday, authorities arrested a 24-year-old woman from California in Florida while she attempted to buy a Tesla Model X using fake documents and a fraudulent check. After they took her into custody, she “admitted” being part of a Chinese crime organization, according to the arrest report.
The Miami Gardens Police Department reports officers arrested the woman at a local Tesla dealership. She was attempting to purchase a Tesla Model X valued at more than $101,000 “using a fraudulent Florida driver’s license that returned to another individual with a significantly higher credit score.” She would admit to the police that she bought the fraudulent identification online for $100.
Authorities said she gave the Tesla dealership a large cashier’s check from a Montana-based business she claimed she owned. She later admitted that it was a “fraudulent shell company” that had wired $38,250 on Feb. 2, which she was going to use as the down payment on the Tesla Model X.
She admitted being part of a ‘systematic fraud organization’
Following her arrest, police said she “admitted to being involved in a systematic fraud organization operating out of California and China.” She also admitted that her partner was currently in China.
The arrest report goes on to state the woman had in her possession 32 California vehicle titles and 46 vehicle certificates of origin, “which she knowingly (possessed) with the intent to fraudulently register vehicles and potentially ship them out of the country.”
She now faces charges of a scheme to defraud a financial institution, second-degree grand theft, fraudulent use of personal identification, an organized scheme to defraud, and transferring a vehicle title without a purchaser’s name.
