$210k Porsche Panamera Stolen by Teen Wearing Ankle Monitor

In late October, just half past six in the evening, a Mercedes-Benz carrying at least four people pulled up to a mansion in Miami-Dade County’s Horse Country area. The group allegedly broke into a Cadillac Escalade parked outside a fenced section, and then one of them climbed over and drove away in a $210,000 Porsche Panamera , carrying seven pairs of shoes worth about $4,200. It seemed like it was all planned out, except one of them forgot he was still wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor, which puts him right at the mansion where the burglary happened. Porsche The Ankle Monitor Did The Detective Work As WPLG reports, deputies say that the member of the crew who had evidence strapped to his leg was Joseph Dexter Watson IV, a 19-year-old who was ordered to wear the GPS monitor after he was released on bond in March. The owner tracked the car to a Hampton Inn parking lot where it was found empty, and it looks like Watson’s ankle monitor corroborates the sequence of events. He was arrested in North Miami Beach and now faces charges of traveling with intent to burglarize an occupied dwelling, masked burglary of an occupied dwelling, and grand theft auto . He’s being held with no bond, and it seems highly unlikely he will get another chance extended to him, if not for committing another crime but for sheer stupidity. Luxury Cars Are Becoming Their Own Tracking Devices The Porsche’s owner wasn’t the only one with a car that could give away its location. Modern performance cars increasingly come with connected telemetry systems that can make them difficult to disappear with. Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac learned this firsthand when his own Chiron was stolen from the company’s Croatian campus in October. His team used the hypercar’s onboard telemetry to follow its location, speed, and fuel level, relaying updates to police as the thief crossed into Slovenia and then Austria. Police eventually intercepted the car and recovered it. The episode is a reminder that stealing a six- or seven-figure car is one thing; keeping it hidden from its own technology is quite another.