Police Charge 11 Men With Stealing 86 Vehicles In Ohio

A bunch of 11 males have been charged with stealing 86 automobiles from 26 totally different automotive dealerships throughout Ohio in a spree that lasted 5 months.

An indictment unsealed by native prosecutors final week consists of 142 counts and consists of prices of racketeering, grand theft, felonious assault, aggravated theft, and conspiracy. Some 90 of those prices have been leveled in opposition to 20-year-old Makilin Wilson who led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat and was arrested in February.

9 of the boys are at present in custody, together with Rasheed Rountree (19), Kyer Allen (19), Dahmere Lymon (19), Ty’aun Williams (20), Willie Hicks (22), Shaakir Maddox (21), Theon Avery (20), Laejuan Robinson (18), Cory Phillips (18), and Arthur Robinson (21). Warrants had been issued to arrest the boys after the indictment was filed below seal.

Prosecutors state that the group focused automobiles together with high-powered Dodge Durango, Challenger, and Jeep Grand Cherokee fashions. It’s claimed that the younger males visited the dealerships through the day to find safety cameras and key fobs earlier than returning at night time and fleeing with the automobiles. Whereas the costs relate to 86 stolen automobiles, police imagine the bottom might have stolen 126 automobiles in complete. Greater than $1.5 million price of automobiles had been stolen in Cuyahoga County whereas the group stole greater than $1.1 million price of automobiles in Summit County.

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In a single incident, 20-year-old Ty’aun Williams and 18-year-old Cory Phillips held the gatekeeper at gunpoint at an Avis automotive rental lot on the Cleveland Hopkins Airport earlier than stealing a Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ford Expedition. Among the stolen automobiles had been bought, together with a Mercedes-Benz that was bought in Michigan for $4,500, whereas lots of the automobiles had been discovered ditched on the road.

Police had been in a position to catch the boys after discovering DNA proof from damaged glass. Cleveland’s The Plain Vendor says authorities additionally used data from telephones and social media.