WAUKESHA, Wis. (WKOW) — An “organized” luxury car theft ring made up of Chicago teenagers was likely the group behind an early morning vehicle heist at a Waukesha dealership early Sunday morning, according to the Waukesha Police Department.
Police said they responded to the Jaguar/Land Rover on Moreland Boulevard in Waukesha around 9 a.m. after a maintenance worker noticed significant damages to a service garage door. Police believe the vehicles were stolen around 6 a.m.
“A stolen vehicle, a minivan, comes to the dealership. They open the service door, and nine subjects went throughout there looking for keys. One person finds where the keys were hidden and then starts to disseminate those to his friends,” Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann told WISN 12 News Monday.
Police said eight of the stolen vehicles were from the dealership. The ninth was a customer’s car.
As of Monday afternoon, Waukesha investigators had recovered six of the nine stolen vehicles. They said four of them were found in Chicago.