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Waukesha, Wis. – A gaggle of youngsters, believed to be from the Chicago space, broke right into a luxurious automotive dealership in Wisconsin and made off with 9 autos price greater than half 1,000,000 {dollars}, police mentioned.
The theft Sunday at a Jaguar-Land Rover dealership in Waukesha was captured on surveillance digital camera footage, exhibiting 9 masked suspects getting into the dealership earlier than they drove into town, about 19 miles (30.5 kilometers) west of Milwaukee. Would experience in a automotive and depart.
The video additionally reveals a automotive being backed up and breaking the overhead service door.
Waukesha Police Capt. Dan Baumann mentioned the suspects entered the dealership round 6 a.m. Sunday, checked out the place automotive keys had been saved after which activated these keys to seek out the stolen vehicles.
“9 folks went out and saved searching for the keys there. “An individual finds out the place the keys had been hidden after which begins telling them to their mates,” Bauman informed WISN-TV.
The 9 autos are price greater than $583,000, he mentioned.
A suspect, a 17-year-old Chicago boy, was arrested Sunday within the Nice Prairie group of southern Wisconsin after the stolen automobile he was driving crashed on Interstate 94 throughout a police pursuit. He’s being held within the Waukesha County Jail on $50,000 bond and is charged with theft, theft and legal harm to property, Bauman mentioned.
The suspects are believed to be “an organized crime group of Chicago-area youngsters,” police mentioned Sunday.
Bauman mentioned Friday that every one or a lot of the teenage suspects are recognized to members of a police process power in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and police in that two-state space had been additionally trying to find eight different suspects Friday.
Six of the 9 stolen autos have been recovered, he mentioned — 4 in Chicago, one within the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, and one in Wisconsin after a freeway crash that led to the arrest of the 17-year-old.