Thieves Swap 26 Cars From Queens, NY Dealership
Car thieves broke into a car dealership in Queens, New York over the weekend, snatched the keys to 26 vehicles, and took them home.
This is shortly after 20 luxury cars were stolen from a Mitsubishi dealer in nearby Jamaica, Queens. The manner of the theft was similar.
NYPD is looking into whether the same people were involved in each theft.
It's tough enough for dealers to keep enough inventory on their lots this year -- and now thieves are just brazenly breaking in and taking cars.
Yours truly doesn't always have sympathy for car dealers, but no business person wants to see their product stolen.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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"NYPD is looking into whether the same people were involved in each theft."
No, the dealership personnel were involved in a different kind of theft.
I thought crime was just perception. Do we know if this really happened?
Luxury cars at a Mitsubishi dealership???
Anybody ever think of locking the keys up before closing?