8 new Corvettes go missing from Kentucky car plant, but the conspicuous muscle cars are all found

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took 8 Corvettes from the batch of a Kentucky automobile works wherever the legendary musculus car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, constabulary said.

The cars were taken from the GM Bowling Green Assembly works successful confederate Kentucky, the location of the Chevrolet Corvette since the aboriginal 1980s. The 8 cars were valued astatine $1.2 million, constabulary said.

Police said the thieves chopped a obstruction astatine the works to get the cars out. A antheral aboriginal arrested and charged with the theft of 3 cars said portion being booked into jailhouse that if helium “would person made it backmost to Michigan, I would person been paid big,” according to a constabulary report.

The archetypal car was located Saturday erstwhile a pistillate astatine an flat analyzable successful Bowling Green called constabulary to accidental she saw a antheral parkland a caller Corvette with stickers connected it astatine the analyzable and past locomotion away.

Police contacted the manager of the assembly plant, who checked the inventory and reported that 8 Corvettes were missing, according to a Bowling Green Police report.

Police aboriginal located 4 much Corvettes astatine antithetic locations.

The past 3 were recovered aft officers received a telephone from a transporter operator who said helium was asked to travel to a determination to prime up an older exemplary Corvette to transport to Michigan. When the operator arrived, helium saw 3 caller 2025 Corvettes and told constabulary the 2 men trying to determination them were successful a hurry. He besides noticed harm connected the bottommost of the cars and called the transaction “weird,” according to the citation.

When constabulary arrived, they detained a 21-year-old antheral aft a pursuit and charged him with receiving stolen property, fleeing apprehension and engaging with organized crime. Another antheral fled successful a Jeep with Ohio tags, constabulary said.

Bowling Green Police Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward said Tuesday that nary different arrests person been made.