Three kids aged 11, 12 and 14 have been arrested by Detroit Police for making an attempt to steal Dodge Charger and Challenger Hellcats from a Stellantis plant in Detroit.
The youths have been apprehended on Monday making an attempt to interrupt right into a storage lot on the Jefferson North facility the place the supercharged muscle vehicles have been parked.
Lt. Clive Stewart, head of the Detroit Police Business Auto Theft Unit, advised Fox 2 Detroit that he’d by no means beforehand come throughout kids as younger as 11 being concerned in automotive theft and suspects the youngsters have been working for adults who knew the children can be handled much less harshly in the event that they have been caught.
“I might suppose any person a bit older bought these youngsters out right here and are placing in orders,” Stewart advised Fox 2. “The older offenders know, ‘I can do that and not likely have my arms on it as a result of I didn’t actually steal the automotive.’”
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The 14-year-old concerned on this incident is the second boy that age to be arrested for auto theft-related crimes within the space prior to now few days. A Crime Stoppers tip led to the apprehension of one other 14-year-old accused of two carjackings final week. The boy is a repeat offender who was already out on bond from a carjacking in Could and is probably going linked to a number of armed robberies, police say. Fox2 experiences that carjackings are up 40 % in Detroit in contrast with 2021.
Police may need thwarted this try to steal muscle vehicles, however you may wager another person will likely be alongside to have a go quickly. Ford has had a number of GT500 Mustangs stolen from its personal heaps in current months. However supposing the youngsters return for a second try, we surprise how far they’d truly get in the event that they did managed to liberate any Hellcats, given what number of adults battle to deal with the vehicles’ 700+ hp (710 PS) output.