Thieves Took an Arizona Family’s Kia From the Driveway and Ditched It at a Church. A $4.5 Million Fund Could Pay Them Up to $2,250.

A Kia Sorento disappeared overnight from a family’s driveway in the Mountain Vista Ranch neighborhood of Surprise, Arizona, in early September. A few days later it turned up in a church parking lot a few blocks from the house, with little missing from inside and damage that cost the family hundreds of dollars to repair, the owner’s mother told ABC15 in a report that aired Tuesday.

The SUV belongs to her son, who found it gone. A neighbor’s security camera recorded the Sorento being driven away, according to the station, and the family filed a police report. The family believes it was taken as part of the “Kia Boyz” social-media trend, which the mother said she had never heard of until it happened to them. “It’s just frustrating because whoever stole it just stole it for a prank,” she told ABC15. No arrest in the case has been reported. Surprise police told the station that thefts of vulnerable Kia and Hyundai models have occurred in the city…

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