Florida man accused of stealing Cybertruck during test drive returned to Tesla dealership days later

A Florida antheral is accused of stealing a Cybertruck during a trial thrust past month, past returning to the dealership astatine a aboriginal day to retrieve his belongings, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Dexter Smithen allegedly went to a Tesla dealership successful Tampa, Florida, connected March 26 to trial thrust a Cybertruck Cyberbeast aft gathering with a income person, according to a transgression affidavit seen by FOX 13 Tampa Bay.

Smithen gave the income subordinate his driver's license, which was confirmed to beryllium his, and signed a test-drive statement to instrumentality the motortruck to the dealership wrong 30 minutes of leaving, which helium did not do, the papers said. 

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Dexter Smithen was arrested successful Hillsborough County, Florida, aft helium allegedly stole a Tesla Cybertruck during a trial drive. (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)

Attempts to scope Smithen done the fig helium wrote connected the test-drive statement were unsuccessful. The income subordinate besides emailed Smithen demanding the instrumentality of the Cybertruck.

A antithetic income subordinate utilized geolocation tracking to find the motortruck connected March 31 and told deputies that Smithen drove it to a Home Depot, parked and went wrong the store, the affidavit stated.

That salesperson took cellphone video of Smithen walking successful the parking batch earlier recovering the Cybertruck and reporting the transgression to the HCSO.

Dexter Smithen is accused of stealing a Cybertruck during a trial thrust successful Tampa astatine the extremity of March. (Nic Coury/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Smithen returned to the Tesla dealership connected Tuesday to retrieve immoderate of his items that helium near successful the Cybertruck, according to the affidavit. 

He was arrested astatine the business, and portion helium was being searched, a lawman said helium recovered 5 recognition cards with 5 antithetic names.

Dexter Smithen returned to the Tesla dealership successful Tampa to stitchery his things that helium near down successful the Cybertruck helium allegedly stole during a trial thrust successful March. (Bryan Preston/Fox News Digital)

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Smithen has been charged with expansive theft of much than $100,000 and unlawful possession of idiosyncratic identification.