KEY LARGO, Fla. — Two men have been arrested in Hillsborough County in connection with the theft of a storage trailer in Key Largo that contained about $35,000 worth of property, including guns, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
According to MCSO spokesman Adam Linhardt, the theft of the 2025 TR Extreme storage trailer was reported Wednesday after it had been stolen from a property on Tortuga Drive.
Linhardt said the “trailer contained household items, appliances, tools, clothing, hunting gear, and approximately 25 firearms, several of which are family heirlooms.”
“Detectives collected evidence that led them to a self-storage unit in Tampa where the two suspects were observed moving the stolen property,” Linhardt said in an email to Local 10 News. “Detectives obtained a search warrant for Carlos A. Cortes Pedraza’s residence, the self-storage unit in Tampa, among other properties, and found stolen items from the Key Largo trailer.”
According to Linhardt, arrest warrants were obtained for Cortes Pedraza, 53, of Tampa, and Heriberto Ivan De La Hoz Medina, 36, of Brandon.
Both were arrested on charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft of firearms, armed burglary of a conveyance and petit theft. Online jail records show Cortes Pedraza also faces a charge of possession of methamphetamine.
Both will be transported to Monroe County, Linhardt confirmed.
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