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September 2022 was a wildly busy month for Disney news. From the massive amount of announcements launched at the D23 Expo early in the month to the final week of September being filled with the news of the destructive Hurricane Ian… September made its mark on 2022.
And to close out the month with the unexpected, on Friday, September 30, 2022, police pulled a getaway car from a canal on Walt Disney World property.
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Orlando Sentinel has reported that Orange Country deputies pulled a black SUV from a canal near Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The SUV was involved in a burglary of an Orlando Family Dollar on Apopka Vineland Road around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, September 30, 2022.
According to the report, “Michael Pickett, Javion Robinson and Corey Stanley drove the car to the store on the 1000 block of North Apopka-Vineland Road, where they smashed a window to enter and rob the store.”
“The total amount allegedly stolen from the store is not included in the document. The store’s manager estimated the suspects caused $3,000 in damage to a window and the store’s safe, and a deputy noted he saw a cash register missing when he walked in.”
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The documents go on to note that the car was found located in a lake on Walt Disney World property near South Studio Drive and East Buena Vista Drive, between Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort hotels… roughly 23 miles south of the Family Dollar.
Orange County deputies quickly handled the incident as the three men were found in nearby woods shortly after crashing the car into the canal. They were reportedly “wet and missing articles of clothing.”
Pickett, Robinson, and Stanley were arrested and booked in Orange County Jail on Friday, September 30, 2022.
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The black SUV getaway car was pulled from the Disney Park canal on Friday morning. The theme park had no comment on the incident.
As always, we will be sure to keep Disney Tips readers updated as we learn more about this story.
