

The National Insurance Crime Bureau says in 2017, the most stolen vehicle in Florida was a 2006 full size Ford pickup truck. In those counties, 28 arrests came from Indian River County, 24 from Martin County, 29 from Okeechobee County and 76 in St.

Those numbers are up from 477 in 2017 in Palm Beach County, and down from 195 in 2017 for the other counties combined.

Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee counties, authorities made 157 arrests for car thefts. In the 19th Judicial Circuit, which includes Martin, St. Numbers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show thieves stole more than 40,000 vehicles in the state of Florida last year.Īgencies made about 8,300 arrests and most of the people arrested were men.īroken down by judicial circuit, there were 527 arrests in the 15th Judicial Circuit, which only includes Palm Beach County, in 2018.
