MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — State troopers said they took a 30-year-old man suspected of committing multiple car burglaries in South Florida into custody after a brief pursuit in northeast Miami-Dade on Monday.
According to one arrest report, Miguel Gabriel Andres was part of “a group of individuals believed to be involved in ongoing motor vehicle thefts throughout the area involving Honda vehicles and air bags.”
Many of the thefts took place in Hialeah, according to arrest documents.
Andres, who has addresses in North Miami and Palmetto Bay, also faces charges out of Miami Gardens. Investigators with that city’s police department said that Broward County authorities, specifically Miramar police, are also investigating him.
Authorities said he would pull up in either a Nissan Altima or his mother’s Ford Explorer and break into vehicles. In the Miami Gardens case, he and his group are also accused of stealing a Honda.
Investigators said they’ve even caught Andres in the act, but he’s “fled several times” and managed to get away.
Authorities said just after 1:45 a.m. Monday, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted the Explorer near Northeast 159th Street and Sixth Avenue, in Miami-Dade’s unincorporated Biscayne Gardens area, and pursued Andres for two blocks before stopping the SUV with a PIT maneuver.
Troopers said “Andres and two other occupants exited the vehicle” and then ran off. It’s not clear whether authorities were able to capture the two other occupants, but they did take Andres into custody.
Andres now faces more than a dozen charges, including multiple counts of burglary, grand theft and fleeing and eluding.
As of Tuesday, records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bond of nearly $60,000.
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