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The cars were taken from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant in
southern Kentucky, the home of the Chevrolet Corvette since the
early 1980s. The eight cars were valued at $1.2 million, police
said.
Police said the thieves cut a fence at the plant to get the cars
out. A man later arrested and charged with the theft of three
cars said while being booked into jail that if he “would have
made it back to Michigan, I would have been paid big,” according
to a police report.
The first car was located Saturday when a woman at an apartment
complex in Bowling Green called police to say she saw a man park
a new Corvette with stickers on it at the complex and then walk
away.
Police contacted the manager of the assembly plant, who checked
the inventory and reported that eight Corvettes were missing,
according to a Bowling Green Police report.
Police later located four more Corvettes at different locations.
The last three were found after officers received a call from a
transporter driver who said he was asked to come to a location
to pick up an older model Corvette to transport to Michigan.
When the driver arrived, he saw three new 2025 Corvettes and
told police the two men trying to move them were in a hurry. He
also noticed damage on the bottom of the cars and called the
transaction “weird,” according to the citation.
When police arrived, they detained a 21-year-old man after a
chase and charged him with receiving stolen property, fleeing
arrest and engaging with organized crime. Another man fled in a
Jeep with Ohio tags, police said.
Bowling Green Police Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward said
Tuesday that no other arrests have been made.
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