[STOLEN] Police Following New Leads on Theft of a C6 Corvette in Beaumont, Texas

Police in Beaumont, Texas are tracking new leads in the theft of a 2011 Corvette in town for a car show earlier this month.

Detectives believe a black Dodge Durango, captured in a grainy surveillance video, could be connected to the crime. They’re asking anyone with information about the theft to call 833-TIPS.

Kathy Morris and her boyfriend, Carl Crites, had traveled 500 miles from Oklahoma to attend the Tri-City Corvette Club Show being held in Beaumont the first week of May. The event, which drew 176 entries from five states last year, raised money for 11 charities.

On the night of Thursday, May 4, Morris had left her black 2011 Corvette convertible parked in a trailer hooked to his white 2001 Ford F-250 Super Cab pickup under very bright lights in the Walden Road Holiday Inn parking lot being patrolled by security.

But surveillance footage around 1 a.m. on May 5 captured thieves pulling up in a black SUV, then breaking into the pickup, hot-wiring it, and driving off with the trailer and the Corvette – all in less than five minutes.

Morris awoke that morning to find a vacant spot where the truck and trailer had been. “It hurts,” she told KFDM-TV reporter Angel San Juan. “It’s a combination of anger, depression, just wanting to strike out and not believing what you see.”

The couple is grateful for the outpouring of support from the community since.

“Everybody here has been nothing but kind, very helpful,” Crites says. “I don’t hold any animus against anybody here in Texas. It’s just one of those things that happened. Some crooks thought they were better than the rest of us.”

Morris feels the same way, praising Beaumont residents for their support. “They’ve texted me, they’ve emailed me, people I don’t know came up, they’ve picked up the tab for our room,” Morris says. “That’s why we came down to meet them – they’re good people.”

Source:
12newsnow.com

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