Center Tennessee law enforcement officials are noticing a development. Criminals are, extra typically than ever earlier than, stealing high-horsepower Dodge autos. They’re not simply flipping them on the black market or chopping them up both. They’re utilizing them in extra crimes as a technique to hopefully outrun the regulation.

The Dodge Charger and Challenger sit atop platforms which are fairly lengthy within the tooth lately. Regardless of that, they each can be found with world-beating horsepower and torque. Thieves throughout the nation are well-versed in exploits that may permit them to drive away with one in every of these efficiency machines in seconds. It’s an issue that’s been occurring for a while.

Gallatin Police Capt. Lamar Ballard, whose jurisdiction isn’t removed from Nashville, tells WKRN Information 2 that his division has seen an uptick in “high-performance autos being stolen.” “We consider that these people are coming in with stolen autos from different jurisdictions, seeking to steal different high-performance Dodges, however they’re additionally committing auto burglaries whereas they’re doing this,” Ballard stated.

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Based on Ballard, these criminals see the profit in utilizing a automobile that has little bother outrunning the common police automobile. “I feel that’s precisely what they’re doing it for,” he says. “They’re getting these high-performance autos that they know are quick, that they know can in all probability outrun a police automobile, so they’re arising in that jurisdiction, in stolen autos, searching for high-performance autos to depart in.”

Based on the Metro Nashville Police Division, criminals stole 149 high-performance Dodge autos within the metropolis final 12 months. As of this report, thieves have already made off with 51 in 2023. That’s a giant bump and highlights simply how simple it may be to leverage an exploit as soon as it’s discovered.

Simply earlier this month, we instructed you about how thieves in Kentucky made off with six Dodge Hellcats in underneath 45 seconds. The people, in that case, appear to have unfold out after the deed was finished with one present in Alabama and one other in Tennessee. Flipping that story round considerably, a theft in Gallatin noticed the suspect drive that Dodge into Kentucky earlier than he was caught.