Authorities say a group of teenagers, believed to be part of a Chicago-area organized crime ring, broke into a luxury Range Rover dealership in Wisconsin last week and He took nine cars valued at more than half a million dollars.
Surveillance video captured the moment nine masked suspects burst into the Jaguar-Land Rover dealership around 6 a.m. on Feb. 18 in Waukesha, about 19 miles west of Milwaukee, according to The Associate Press.
Waukesha Police Capt. Dan Baumann told WISN-TV that the suspects entered the dealership and found where the car keys were stored to locate the ones they would steal.
The video also shows the suspects reversing a car inside the service center and breaking down a door to the parking lot before the nine cars leave the dealership in a single file.
The nine high-end vehicles are valued at more than $583,000.Baumann said.
The police at the time stated that The suspects were believed to be “an organized criminal group of Chicago-area teenagers.” and that most are known to members of a police task force in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
A suspect, a 17-year-old Chicago boy, was arrested Sunday in the southern Wisconsin community of Pleasant Prairie after the stolen vehicle he was driving crashed along Interstate 94 during a police chase. the police said.
He was being held in the Waukesha County Jail on $50,000 bail and faces charges of robbery, larceny and criminal damage to property, according to Baumann.
Six of the nine stolen vehicles have been recovered: four in Chicago, one in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield and one in Wisconsin after the highway crash that led to the 17-year-old’s arrest, according to authorities.
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