--- title: Florida Man Arrested After Stealing GPS Then Calling Police description: Ah yes, a perfectly logical sequence of events canonical: https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-02T14:35:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:14.903Z og:title: Man Who Stole a GPS Device Calls Police Because He's Lost og:description: Ah yes, a perfectly logical sequence of events og:url: https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d80dc7e08a21005/698695cce53aba86574d2f7b/153692499.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 153692499 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Who Stole a GPS Device Calls Police Because He's Lost twitter:description: Ah yes, a perfectly logical sequence of events twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d80dc7e08a21005/698695cce53aba86574d2f7b/153692499.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Who Stole a GPS Device Calls Police Because He's Lost by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 2, 2014 2:35 PM UTC  navigation device on windshield navigation device on windshieldGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 2, 2014 2:35 PM UTC Last week, a Florida man called 911 to report that he was lost and being chased by wild boars. Sure, that sounds like just another day in central Florida, but here’s the thing: he was carrying a backpack stuffed with stolen items. Among them was a GPS device. Look, I’m no street-savvy criminal here, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the _best_ idea to call the police when you’re technically on the lam. (Police discovered that the man, Andrew Joffe, had an open warrant for driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license, WKMG [reports](http://www.clickorlando.com/news/lost-central-florida-man-calls-911-gets-arrested/26231714). Plus, you know, he had committed theft.) Also, if you’re going to steal a GPS and then you get lost, try USING IT. “We have had people with warrants call us to turn themselves in before, but it’s unusual for someone with an active warrant, who just burglarized a car, to get lost and call us for help,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd [said](http://www.clickorlando.com/news/lost-central-florida-man-calls-911-gets-arrested/26231714). “In his defense, it does get pretty dark out on Deen Still Road in the middle of the night.” Other items police found in Joffe’s backpack included electronic equipment, cellphones and earrings. He was promptly arrested and taken to jail, because obviously. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/"},"headline":"Man Who Stole a GPS Device Calls Police Because He's Lost","datePublished":"2014-06-02T14:35:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:14.903Z","description":"Ah yes, a perfectly logical sequence of events","url":"https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","GPS","Bizarre","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d80dc7e08a21005/698695cce53aba86574d2f7b/153692499.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d80dc7e08a21005/698695cce53aba86574d2f7b/153692499.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"153692499","caption":"153692499","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2809080/florida-gps-thief-calls-police/","name":"Man Who Stole a GPS Device Calls Police Because He's Lost"}}]}] ```