The usual way to steal a Lamborghini involves getting close to one. Houston police say the luxury car theft ring they broke up this month had them brought over on a truck instead. When some of the cars surfaced again, at the Port of New York and New Jersey, they were already loaded into shipping containers marked as rebar.
The Houston Police Department’s Auto Theft Division says the operation recovered 15 luxury vehicles valued at $3 million and ended with four adults and one juvenile charged with engaging in organized criminal activity. Three of the five are one family, according to court records described by Houston TV stations: a married couple from Katy and their 17-year-old son.
None of them has been convicted. The Auto Wire did not find a public statement from any of the defendants or their lawyers.
What Houston police released
HPD announced the case in an Oct. 16 post on X, saying the Auto Theft Division had run an operation “targeting the illegal transportation of stolen luxury vehicles.” A booking-photo graphic in the post names the four adults: Dheyaa Abd, Iman Al Saedi, Matthew Gonzalez and Saifuldeen Al Gburi. The department did not name the juvenile, and neither does The Auto Wire. Court records list the adults’ ages as 41, 35, 29 and 30, respectively, Fox 26 Houston reported…