Man Drives Soon To Be Ex Wife’s C4 Corvette into the Delaware River

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Man Drives Soon to be Ex Wife's C4 Corvette into the Delaware River

This 1990 Corvette is the latest victim in a divorce case that has made national headlines.

Police say a Pennsylvania man who is in the middle of divorce proceedings made good on his threat to wreck his wife’s Corvette by driving it into the Delaware river.

Witnesses say the 50-year-old husband dumped the car into the river just below the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge on Monday and then fled as the car submerged into the dark water. Police divers were called and after a 30 minute search confirmed finding the unoccupied vehicle in about 30 feet of water. Divers then attached a cable to the car and it was pulled back onto shore just after sundown.

Philadelphia Police Inspector Scott Small described the recovery of the Corvette, “There was no visibility whatsoever. The divers just had to go by feel. They found the vehicle, they went inside the vehicle which is extremely dangerous because you can get trapped with all the debris. They were able to feel that there was no one inside.”

Police say that the car was registered to the wife and that she has a restraining order against her husband. She told WLNS.com that he has threatened to dump the car in the river if she didn’t meet his demands and that this was payback for not allowing him to drive a van that the couple co-owns.

Philadelphia Police Inspector Scott Small explains, “The Corvette is registered to the wife so I guess he was angry with his wife and took her car, drove it to the Delaware River.”

The husband is now facing several misdemeanor charges including reckless endangerment for putting police offers and divers in harm’s way during the search and recovery of the Corvette.


Source:
WLNS.com

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