Robert Hoopes and his wife Becki still can’t believe their luck.
“It could happen to anyone and when it does, it’s really shocking and puts you in a bad position no matter who you are,” he said.
Last week the couple’s Kia Forte was stolen from in front of their Clayton apartment.
Little could they have known that days later it would be used in a crime spree. Garner Police chased it at a high rate of speed into Raleigh on Monday.
“They obviously went for the people’s car who needed it the most and I know they didn’t think it through,” Becki said.
It started a week ago when Robert went to go out to go to work and his car was gone.
“It was just an empty parking space where my car was,” he said.
Robert, who works in I.T., lives down the road in Johnston County and had to stay home that day because his car was gone.
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He called the police who came and took a report.
Detectives told them other cars were rifled through at a different complex off of US 70 but their car was the only one that was stolen