In line with authorities, criminals broke right into a dealership round 2 a.m. on Tuesday and drove away with six Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcats in lower than a minute. As of this writing, police have positioned 5 of the six however one nonetheless stays within the wild. We don’t assume that is what Dodge had in thoughts once they launched the Challenger Hellcat Jailbreak.

The vendor in query is ‘Don Franklin Somerset Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram’ positioned in Somerset, Kentucky. That’s about 90 minutes from Lexington or 50 minutes from the northern Tennessee border. The theft is a reasonably large blow contemplating how little time it took to finish.

“Actually simply heartbreaking. It’s $600,000 price of automobiles gone. You understand, that’s some huge cash. A fairly large deal,” stated normal supervisor Adam Bryant to native information community WKYT. “They broke out a again window, bought into the constructing, discovered the keys to all six autos, and drove them off the lot in a matter of minutes,” he continued.

In line with the supervisor, a gaggle of seven people have been in a position to make off with all six Hellcats in simply 40 seconds. “And so they have been gone. As soon as they tripped the alarm, it takes 60 seconds earlier than it begins alerting. They have been gone 20 seconds earlier than the alarm began to go off. The response time of the police was like three minutes. It was actually good,” Bryant added.

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As soon as off of vendor property, the thieves cut up up and went in dramatically completely different instructions. In a single day, the police discovered 5 of the six automobiles. One was totaled in a police pursuit and its driver was arrested. 4 different automobiles have been discovered elsewhere together with Tennessee and Alabama.

At the least one appears to have merely run out of gasoline. Lastly, the sixth automobile remains to be unaccounted for however Police consider that it’s in Alabama in keeping with GPS knowledge. They are saying that they’re working with native authorities to find the Hellcat.

Dodge sellers appear to have a serious drawback retaining Hellcats on their lot. We’ve seen numerous cases of thieves concentrating on the high-horsepower automobiles. Information from 2019 means that it’s not all anecdotal both. Actually, this isn’t even the primary time that this explicit vendor has suffered an identical Hellcat breakout. In September of 2022, 4 different Hellcats have been stolen from the identical location.