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Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney John K. “Bubba” Bramlett announced today that Victor Andrew Ogiste, 29, and Ramone Davis, 31, both of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were sentenced for their parts of a series of auto burglaries at the Burn Bootcamp in Madison. Ogiste was sentenced to 35 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without the possibility of early release or parole. Davis was sentenced to forty years to serve.

On October 13, 2023, officers with the Madison Police Department were notified that multiple cars located in the parking lot of Burn Bootcamp had been burglarized. All the victims had been attending the 5:00 a.m. workout class. Their car windows had been smashed, and various items were stolen including purses, wallets, bank cards and checkbooks. Officers immediately began reviewing surveillance videos and noticed a 2022 Toyota Rav4 enter the parking lot shortly before 5:00 a.m. An individual exited that car after the workout class began and, within a span of twenty minutes, broke into eleven vehicles, stole various items out of each car, returned to the passenger side and was driven away. Officers were able to obtain the tag number of the vehicle and uploaded it into their license plate reader system.

MPD was also made aware that on October 11, 2023 a Burn Bootcamp in Oxford, Mississippi had a similar occurrence where multiple cars were broken into during its 5:00 a.m. class using the same smash-and-grab method used in Madison. The investigation led officers to a rented AirBnB in Hattiesburg. With the assistance of the Forrest County Sheriff's Office, investigators executed a search warrant on the house and vehicles in Hattiesburg. They located multiple items from both the Madison and Oxford burglaries including victims’ credit cards, driver licenses and other personal belongings.

Officers also discovered the suspected burglars were now driving a Chrysler 300 and were able to obtain that new tag number. Officers in Trussville, Alabama located the vehicle and made a traffic stop. Victor Ogiste was the driver, and Ramone Davis was one of the passengers. Investigators with MPD did forensic examinations of several cell phones located inside the vehicle. They discovered that Ogiste had googled the locations of multiple Burn Boot Camps.

His map location history also put him as the driver in the parking lot of the Madison Burn Boot Camp at the time of the burglaries. Davis’s location data also put him on the scene at the burglaries, and he was identified as one of the individuals looking into vehicles immediately prior to the burglaries.

Finally, the case was turned over to the Madison County District Attorney’s Office where their in-house geolocation mapping expert examined the call detail records of the phones. Through the provided data of the various cell towers that the cell phones used, along with various license plate reader hits, and both photographic and GPS evidence found on Ogiste’s phone, the District Attorney’s office was able to prepare a map showing that Ogiste, Davis, and several others had left Ft. Lauderdale several days prior, driven through the through Carolinas, Tennessee, and into Mississippi where they briefly stopped in Oxford. They then traveled to Hattiesburg and stayed overnight. Officers then tracked the suspects’ movements on the morning of the burglary to the parking lot of the Burn Boot Camp and back to Hattiesburg where they stayed briefly before heading towards Tennessee where they were eventually arrested in Alabama.

Ogiste had been scheduled for trial during a previous court appearance. He later informed his attorney he would not be returning for trial, and he in fact did not appear for his trial. He was tried in absentia, meaning he was not present for trial, but with proper legal representation. The Court found that Ogiste had knowingly and voluntarily absented himself and issued a bench warrant. He was convicted by a jury in Madison County Circuit Court on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 of eleven counts of auto burglary and one count of conspiracy. He was taken into custody by the US Marshals on December 3, 2025 in Forth Worth, Texas and brought back to Madison County to await sentencing. At his sentencing hearing, the State presented letters by the various victims as well evidence of his many prior convictions. He was deemed to be a habitual offender and will not be eligible for parole for any of his offenses meaning he must serve every day of his 35 year sentence.

Davis also failed to appear for his scheduled court appearances and was arrested on a bench warrant in December 2025. Once before the court, he elected to plead guilty to his charges in lieu of going to trial. He pled guilty to five counts of burglary and one count of conspiracy. He received a sentence of forty years with the possibility of parole.

District Attorney Bubba Bramlett stated, “These two men came to Madison County for the sole purpose of committing crimes against our citizens. This is unacceptable, and I am so thankful Madison Police Department, working alongside countless other agencies, were able to identify who these men were and successfully get them into custody. This group of individuals clearly did not understand that committing crimes in Madison or Rankin counties is a quick way to end up spending decades in prison.”

Bramlett further added, “I want to also thank Assistant District Attorneys Katie Moulds and Brad Hutto for the prosecution of both men and the trial of Ogiste. This case was highly complex involving multiple officers from different jurisdictions as well as highly technical evidence derived from cell phones, GPS data, and other technological sources. The investigative tools at officers’ disposal are evolving at a historic rate, and it is imperative that officers and attorneys understand and know how to work with these advancements.