Florida Man Steals $250k Porsche 930 Turbo From Museum, Registers It With Fake Docs

Owning an original Porsche 930 Turbo is a dream for many of us, and steep prices mean a dream is what it’ll remain for most. A nice car might cost you as much as $250,000. But one Florida man was determined to make his 930-owning dream a reality, and not by working really hard and stashing every spare cent in his piggy bank. Instead, he hatched a plan to steal an immaculate version from a museum and pass it off as an entirely different 911 that had been wrecked years earlier.

Daniel Boyce was so determined to take the vintage 1977 Turbo from the Sarasota Classic Car Museum this past June that he moved seven vehicles out of the way to access it. The museum staff did lend a hand in one sense though: they left the keys to the metallic brown coupe inside the car in the driver’s footwell. Police had already been called out to the site that evening when the building’s alarm sounded but had noticed nothing unusual. But a second call-out uncovered pry marks on a door, an open chain-link fence an a missing Porsche, CBS12 reports.

The Porsche was seen on surveillance footage at 05.15 am but after that, the trail went cold until the museum received a tip several days later that Boyce had been spotted with a brown 911 at a warehouse. An investigation by multiple forces discovered that the 36-year old had recently registered a 1976 brown Porsche under an LLC company called Triton Engineering using the VIN from another 911 that had been wrecked 23 years previously and sold to a salvage yard in California.

A bill of sale, Maine registration document, odometer verification letter, and other documents involved in registering the Porsche were all found to be fraudulent and implicated Boyce in the scam, even listing his own personal cellphone number. Boyce was arrested after failing to appear for a grand theft auto charge and when police executed a warrant to search his phone they discovered a photo of a car that looked identical to the stolen Turbo plus images of a storage unit code and unit number, which led cops to the missing Porsche.

The light-fingered air-cooled fan is currently being held without bond at the Sarasota County Jail while police continue investigations.