Posted on 10/24/2025 4:55:29 PM PDT by CFW
LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga. — NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal is missing a $180,000 luxury SUV.
The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office says a 2025 Land Rover Range Rover was being delivered to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when it was stolen. Effortless Motors, a California-based auto brokerage, confirmed that they customized the vehicle for and sold it to O’Neal.
They say they arranged transportation to Louisiana through a third-party company. But a “sophisticated cyber-attack” targeted the transport company.
The Range Rover never arrived at its intended destination.
Channel 2’s Tom Regan learned from the sheriff’s office that GPS tracking suggests it’s possible the SUV is on a shipping container and is on its way to another country.
The sheriff’s office says the company, FirstLine Trucking LLC, reported that it had not dispatched the driver who claimed the assignment.
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Technically, as it was not yet delivered, is it Shaq’s vehicle?
“Effortless Motors, a California-based auto brokerage, confirmed that they customized the vehicle for and sold it to O’Neal.”
Obviously they lived up to their name when it was regarding the security of their product.
Yes, interesting.
Very little detail from the source about who and how the vehicle was actually shipped.
Here is a theft ring that was busted last month.
“Eight Men Charged with Smuggling High-End Vehicles Overseas”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/eight-men-charged-smuggling-high-end-vehicles-overseas
“According to the 12-count indictment, beginning in July 2023 and continuing through August 2025, the defendants conspired with each other and others to receive stolen vehicles at one of four commercial/industrial lots. Conspirators would then pack two or more vehicles at the lots into shipping containers and cause the containers’ transportation to port cities via freight or rail. From the port cities, if law enforcement had not already interdicted the containers, the containers with cars would ship overseas.”
“””Technically, as it was not yet delivered, is it Shaq’s vehicle?””””
Since it was custom made for him I expect he paid for it in advance.
Inside job all the way.
Sell it twice.
Surely it has a tracking capability?!
Surely it has a tracking capability?!
Yeah, but it has been tracked to out in the ocean so there is probably not much that can be done.
IT HAS TO LAND SOMEWHERE
Lumpkin County?
Biggest town is Dahlonega. College town.
Of all places.
British joke:
Visit Albania, your car is already there.
No way it could be an inside job out of California cause NewScum says there’s no crime there.
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