---
title: "Florida Teen Allegedly Steals Porsche and $200,000, Buys Mom a Hellcat"
description: "Talk about a considerate son."
date: "2017-06-27"
modified: "2017-06-28"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/11887/florida-teen-allegedly-steals-porsche-and-200000-buys-mom-a-hellcat"
categories:
  - "Dodge News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Porsche News"
tags:
  - "Cayman"
  - "Challenger"
  - "Crime"
  - "Florida"
  - "Hellcat"
  - "porsche"
  - "theft"
---

# Florida Teen Allegedly Steals Porsche and $200,000, Buys Mom a Hellcat

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What a nice boy. After stealing [a Porsche Cayman](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/2653/even-among-elite-metal-the-porsche-cayman-gt4-shines>) and more than $200,000 in cash from a Florida man with his friends, a Fort Lauderdale teen used the money to buy his mother a [Dodge Challenger Hellcat](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9342/watch-this-dodge-challenger-hellcat-hit-seventh-gear-in-a-burnout>), he told police.

15-year-old Jeremiah Laplace and five other teenagers snuck into a house in a well-to-do part of North Hutchinson Island near Vero Beach before dawn on April 27th, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said [according to the *Miami Herald*](<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article158343434.html>)*,* driving up in a stolen Hyundai Santa Fe and knocking on doors until they found an empty house. Once inside, the teens made off with a safe filled with cash, multiple firearms, and the white 2014 Porsche Cayman found at the home, police said.

In the following days, Laplace used the money to buy a Hellcat for his mother, as well as give her $40,000 in cash, he told authorities. But the teenager also treated himself to a [Mercedes-Benz C300](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/3839/mercedes-c300-cabriolet-and-mercedes-amg-c63-s-cabriolet-first-drive>), a gold bracelet, a gold chain, and a set of permanent gold teeth, Laplace told the cops.

The Porsche was found in Delray Beach a few days after the robbery with the keys inside, according to the *Herald*.

Five of the six teens involved confessed their involvement in the robbery after being picked up by authorities in connection with other crimes, the *Herald* reported. Police said the group had committed similar crimes in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Fort Lauderdale.

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
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[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)