A Lexus dealership, sun-soaked Miami Beach, a rogue police officer and nearly a dozen criminal accomplices.
It might sound like the early sketches of a Hollywood action film, but the setting and characters are real.
Last fall, a massive auto lease theft ring was busted wide open, exposing an elaborate fraud arrangement concocted in large part by Tomas Manrique, 51, owner of Wachovia Auto Sales, and Todd Javon Smith Jr., 29, owner of Parelelas Motors, according to law enforcement officials.
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