Posted on 10/17/2022 11:44:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Thieves are using cloned key fobs to steal Dodge muscle cars and other high-powered vehicles directly from dealerships and even automakers in Michigan, then selling them for tens of thousands of dollars less than their value, according to authorities and court records.
DETROIT — Thieves are using cloned key fobs to steal Dodge muscle cars and other high-powered vehicles directly from dealerships and even automakers in Michigan, then selling them for tens of thousands of dollars less than their value, according to authorities and court records.
For one Ohio-based theft ring, it all came crashing down after a January holdup of a U.S. postal worker led authorities to connect several men to brazen car thefts in the Detroit area, long home to the country’s biggest automakers, including Dodge, which is now owned by international conglomerate Stellantis.
Investigators then discovered that new Chargers, Challengers, Durangos and Ram pickups worth $50,000 to $100,000 were turning up in Ohio, Indianapolis and East Coast shipping ports after being sold on the street for $3,500 to $15,000, according to a criminal complaint.
Thieves in the Detroit area are primarily going after Dodge vehicles with Hellcat engines, including Chargers and Challengers — “the fast ones,” Sgt. Jerry Hanna with the Macomb Auto Theft Squad said.
“If a patrol car gets them, they are not stopping and they’re faster than patrol cars. They’re 150 mph all day,” he said.
Instead of stealing them off the street, they're driving them straight off dealership and assembly plant lots.
Just this year, about a half-dozen vehicles — primarily Dodge Ram TRX pickups — were taken from a lot outside an assembly plant in Macomb County.
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Did they find Elenor?
I’m sorry but we are going to have to start hanging thieves.
There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of having to go to prison.
We could just do like the Muslims and chop off their hands..................
Price to be paid for being too lazy to use an actual key?
Once “Quantum computers” become readily available coded locks will be so obsolete that everything will be essentially unlocked.
Unless you uuse a quantum computer to set the locking algorithm
Can I get a Ferrari FOB?
In the old days, when you could hotwire a car with a piece of gum wrapper, I always had a hidden kill switch in my car. Seems like a good idea today. A mechanical switch to thwart all the electronics.
$100,000 for a car or pickup truck?
A sucker is born every minute...
If a patrol car gets them, they are not stopping and they’re faster than patrol cars. They’re 150 mph all day,” he said.
True. But radios are still faster.
Haven’t been on a new car lot lately? ...............
No reason to...My older vehicles are in near new condition, with low miles.☺
I see fools walking around stealerships with salesmen dogging them...My first thought is, another fool gets suckered.
‘Now you might outrun my old Chevrolet but you can’t outrun my own two way
Leon’s awaitin’ at the station to hear from me
Now you’re gonna be a wishin’ I believed in extradition
Cause I’ll chase you all the way back to Tennesee
Yeah I don’t take no lip...”
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A police helicopter with a machinegun is faster.
Pass legislation that somebody evading a police chase at high speed is involved in an inherently dangerous act, which justifies using deadly force to stop it.
screw that all electrical crap, not too lazy to turn a damn key yet...
At one point there were about 15 different keys for each brand of cars.
I remember going to a kid locked in a Ford Explorer that was about the same year as my wife’s. I pulled my keys out of my pocket and unlocked the door. The owners jaw hit the ground.
Either the thieves are smarter than you’d think, or “Stellantis” doesn’t want the cars back: these cars can all be tracked by their GPS/etc.
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