KENOSHA COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) – A three-year-long investigation has resulted in 23 members of a sophisticated interstate car theft ring being federally indicted, authorities say.
According to a release from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation was launched in 2022 after a license plate was found on a rural Kenosha County Highway and was later determined to have come from a vehicle stolen out of Milwaukee.
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Over the last three years, officials say, numerous search warrants were carried out in La Crosse, Madison, Sun Prairie, Milwaukee, Racine, and Chicago.
These search warrants led to the identification of a number of key figures in the multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise. Diaunte Shields, Casha Griffin, Brianna Shields, Lashawn Davis Jr., and Meliek McClarn were identified by detectives as part of the twenty-three suspects total in this Federal Indictment…