[STOLEN] Police Recover Truck and Trailer but C6 Corvette Is Still Missing

Some good news, and some bad news in the ongoing mystery of the missing Corvette in Texas.

An Oklahoma couple in town for the Tri-City Corvette Show in Beaumont, Texas had their pickup truck and trailer carrying their 2011 Corvette convertible stolen the night before the show started.

In an update today to KFDM-TV’s Angel San Juan, Carl Crites – owner of the 20-foot enclosed Anvil V-front trailer carrying his girlfriend Kathy Morris’ Corvette – says he received a certified letter Monday from a wrecker company in Houston telling him that they had towed his trailer to their facility after the thieves apparently had abandoned it at a Houston gas station.

Unfortunately, the trailer was empty.

Then Tuesday at 1:30 a.m., the Tomball Police Department called Crites and told him they had pulled over a man driving the stolen truck and took him into custody. They believe he had been using the truck to steal recreational vehicles.

Now, Crites’ insurance company is arranging to have the pickup and trailer returned to his home in Edmond, Oklahoma. He’s not sure if the trailer was damaged but reports the driver’s door, steering column key lock and possibly the seat covers were damaged on the truck.

Meanwhile, Morris’ black C6 convertible with license plate DVSBLND is still missing.

Morris and 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 Crites’ 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:
fox4beaumont.com

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