08/11/2026
Eighty-five miles off Naples, in open Gulf water. That's where the Coast Guard found a stolen 36-foot center console, still running southwest with a suspect aboard. It started at 10:20 on a May night, on a berth in Naples. The geofence broke the moment the boat moved. Whoever took it ran slow at first, south to Sanibel, then north off Gasparilla Island. Careful. Unhurried. Five hours later they opened it up and turned for Mexico. They never got there.
Position, speed and heading went to the Coast Guard every two minutes for the entire chase. The boat came home with superficial damage. A detective on the case put it plainly: without the tracker, it would have ended up as just another statistic.
Case File 02.
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