NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A northern Miami-Dade County family is enduring a string of bad luck.

Sources: WPLG & NBC

First they had an expensive iPhone stolen earlier this summer, and now someone has taken something way more expensive: their 2021 black Cadillac Escalade SUV.

“It’s real frustrating because they came to my house,” said the victim, who did not want to reveal his identity. “I never thought about that because I thought this car was fool-proof, it’s a hundred-thousand-dollar car.”

In surveillance video, you can see the crook masked up and covered, casually walking right up the victim’s driveway.

It happened in a housing community just off I-95 in North Miami Beach.

The only known set of keys were inside the home, but the thief appears to quickly trigger something, the car lights up and poof, he’s gone with the vehicle. It appears that someone, somehow, got a copy of the key fob.

“My key was behind the wall. It’s really relatively close to the car,” the victim said.

He said his keys were hanging on a hook by the door to his home, and he fears someone, somehow, got a copy of that key fob.

“AAA has heard a lot of reports about this happening across the country,” he said.

As a matter of fact, Mark Jenkins with AAA says law enforcement is very aware of the trend.

Local 10 News has covered several recent cases where crooks use a type of software, especially on push-to-start cars. They can scout things out beforehand and make a clean break.

“Normally key fobs work when they’re about 3 feet away from the vehicle,” said Jenkins. “But nowadays, criminals have found a device that enables them to extend that signal range to make it basically trick the vehicle that the key fob is right next to the car.”

Unfortunately, this case is the second blow to the victim and his family, who made headlines in July.

That’s when North Miami Beach police say Yaeger Bonilla went to their home to buy an iPhone that the family was selling on OfferUp.

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