OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – A Johnson County, Kansas couple woke up in the middle of the night to find two of their cars missing.
“We couldn’t see them coming up [the driveway] but we could see them driving away,” said Megan Barrientos while looking at her home security footage from the morning of January 17.
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She, along with her husband, Edgar, had no idea thieves had made off with two of their cars until Edgar’s cell phone pinged around 5:30 a.m.
“The first [ping] was at a QuikTrip on State Line. For some reason they got $200 out and then the line went down to Kansas City. It was a BP and another QuikTrip,” he said.
The pings were notifications about purchases made with his credit and debit cards, which he’d left in his 2013 Audi S7.
He quickly canceled his cards and used the pings to try to locate his missing Audi and 2017 Ford Explorer but to no avail.
A few hours later one of their neighbors showed them surveillance footage from that morning of two men and a woman trying to steal cars in the neighborhood. That neighbor reported it to police, but no one’s ever been caught.