What started as a routine night in San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood turned into a brazen driveway heist when three men rolled up on a 2016 Corvette, threatened the homeowners at gunpoint, and sped off with the freshly customized sports car yesterday morning.
Surveillance video shows the trio approaching the Corvette in the couple’s driveway and milling around the vehicle for several minutes. When the home’s motion detector alerted Doug and Linda Smith, they stepped outside to confront the men. The tense standoff ended the moment one suspect told the homeowner, “I got a gun,” sending the couple back inside to call 911 while the thieves finished the job. The Smiths say the men spent roughly 10 minutes around the car before leaving with it, just weeks after the owner had it repainted and fitted with new wheels. Shaken but unhurt, they now say they want neighbors to know exactly what happened.
Doug and Linda Smith told NBC Bay Area that a camera mounted above their garage captured the entire incident at about 1 a.m. According to the station, officers showed up within four minutes of the 911 call, but the thieves and the 2016 Corvette Z51 LT3 were already gone. The couple believes the crew used some kind of device to clone or spoof their key fob, and NBC Bay Area reports that the video shows the suspects lingering in the driveway for around 10 minutes before driving off.
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