A suspect in the Atlanta theft of Shaquille O’Neal’s customized Range Rover has been arrested in Westchester County, N.Y., authorities said Tuesday.
Anthony Del Rosario, 33, was arrested Dec. 5 in Mount Vernon, police said. He was wanted on a warrant from Lumpkin County, Ga., where the Range Rover was last seen.
Del Rosario, a Florida native, was driving a different car that triggered a license plate alert in Mount Vernon, cops said. Officers followed him into a business, detained him and determined he was the wanted man who triggered the alert.
Though Del Rosario was nabbed, O’Neal’s missing Range Rover has been not found, police said.
O’Neal’s vehicle was stolen in October, while it was being transported from California to Lumpkin County for some fabrication, police said. The SUV was passing through Atlanta when it was swiped, according to the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office.
Cops described the theft as part of an extensive operation, Atlanta CBS affiliate WUPA reported. Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrad said he expects more arrests in the case, but the Range Rover itself is probably overseas in the Middle East.
O’Neal had reportedly ordered the custom vehicle from a dealership in Riverside, Calif., prior to sending it to the fabrication business in Georgia. The SUV was then intended to be transported to Louisiana for O’Neal’s use during his trip to Baton Rouge for an LSU football game in October, but it very arrived at that location.
The car, valued at $180,000, was altered to give the 7-foot O’Neal more room in the driver’s seat. It was transferred through several different companies for its cross country journey and one, FirstLine Trucking LLC, told WUPA it had been hacked while the car was in transit.
