CHICAGO (CBS) — Seven suspects from Chicago are now charged in a luxury car heist that happened in Wisconsin nearly a year ago.
Some of the men now charged were already convicted in a deadly carjacking in Milwaukee.
Video from Waukesha, Wisconsin police shows four of the suspects in action in the showroom of a Jaguar and Land Rover dealership on Feb. 18, 2024. In another shot, a vehicle rammed through the dealership’s garage door in reverse.
Police said this was the work of a Chicago luxury car theft ring. A total of nine vehicles were taken.
“Basically, they just took the key fobs seeing what headlights would pop up,” Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann said last year.
Someone tipped off police after seeing the men in masks pull all nine luxury cars into the same gas station.
Police did arrest one man, Calvin Valentine, after they threw out spike strips during a high-speed chase.
But the other suspects got away. Five other cars, however, were eventually found—one in Deerfield and four in Chicago.