Post by bluelinebill on Apr 24, 2008 17:35:11 GMT -5
I was advised of a group of individuals who may have been casing a local car dealership in order to steal the cars.
It worked like this. Six or more Black males dressed well, enter a car dealership. They wonder around the show room and front car lot distracting the staff. One at a time individuals from the group will attempt to locate keys to the cars on the lot.
Most dealer-ships have inventory keys and keys to new test drive vehicles somewhere in the showroom area.
These suspects tried one at a time to gain entry to the area where the keys were stored when they were able to narrow down where they were kept.
A staff member at this local dealership who worked in the administrative area where the keys are kept had to ask several of this group’s members to leave the office area. Finally after members of this group tried to gain entry into the administrative area time after time, a staff member advised them that they needed to either talk to a sales person or leave. They left. A report was made.
My guess is that they were a chop shop crew.
It worked like this. Six or more Black males dressed well, enter a car dealership. They wonder around the show room and front car lot distracting the staff. One at a time individuals from the group will attempt to locate keys to the cars on the lot.
Most dealer-ships have inventory keys and keys to new test drive vehicles somewhere in the showroom area.
These suspects tried one at a time to gain entry to the area where the keys were stored when they were able to narrow down where they were kept.
A staff member at this local dealership who worked in the administrative area where the keys are kept had to ask several of this group’s members to leave the office area. Finally after members of this group tried to gain entry into the administrative area time after time, a staff member advised them that they needed to either talk to a sales person or leave. They left. A report was made.
My guess is that they were a chop shop crew.
