A man who claimed to be a professional basketball player walked into the valet area of the Hyatt Regency Savannah in the early hours of August 14 and convinced staff that he owned a gray 2026 BMW X5, presenting a fabricated valet ticket that secured the $90,000 loaner SUV.
Valet Deception Fuels High‑Value Thefts
The vehicle, a loaner provided by a local dealership for a hotel guest, was later traced by the dealership to a location in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, prompting the car to be entered into state and national stolen‑vehicle databases as a theft.
The same individual was also seen with a white 2025 Audi A5, which had been reported stolen the previous day and was later discovered unlocked in the hotel’s parking garage; investigators linked this theft to a prior burglary of a black 2019 Toyota C‑HR from a Fairfield Inn on August 5, where the retrieval code had been used nine hours before the incident was reported, and to another hotel valet theft in Savannah that occurred nearly two weeks earlier.
Authorities described the suspect as a Black male between 20 and 30 years old, and the case follows a separate wire‑fraud and conspiracy scheme in which Daejon Labrayae Love and Taylor Jamie Chan were arrested for offering fake investment opportunities to women across multiple states.