[STOLEN] OnStar Leads Police to a C8 Corvette Stolen from a Charlotte Valet Service

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OnStar Leads Police to a C8 Corvette Stolen from a Charlotte Valet Service

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Another success story for Onstar has taken a nasty turn for the owner of a $108,000 Corvette Stingray.

Robert Williams says he had owned the new mid-engine sports car for only three days when he handed over the keys to the valet service at the Springhill Suites Marriott in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina on June 17, expecting it to return shortly and find it parked right out front or in a parking deck next door to the hotel.

When he went to retrieve the car, however, the staff told Williams it was gone.

Onstar was eventually able to track down the Corvette some 30 miles away at a residence in northwest Charlotte, where it was found in the backyard of a home along with a BMW M4 stolen on May 19 and a Dodge Challenger taken on April 23.

OnStar Leads Police to a C8 Corvette Stolen from a Charlotte Valet Service


“About 15 minutes goes by, they walk back up and say, ‘Mr. Williams, I’m going to let you know, your car is there, I saw it myself, it’s in the garage,’” Williams told WSOC-TV Channel 9 reporter Jonathan Lowe this week.

According to a search warrant obtained by police on July 7 that was seen by the reporter, wheels and side paneling had already been stripped from the stolen cars, along with their engine blocks.

“The car, when we got there, he had snatched off the battery panel, it was already reprogrammed,” Williams says. “That’s why Onstar couldn’t necessarily find it; he was programming the car as we were trying to look for it.”

OnStar Leads Police to a C8 Corvette Stolen from a Charlotte Valet Service


Now it’s been more than a month since the theft of his car, and Williams still feels the hotel and the valet service it contracts with, Parking Management Company, could do more to rectify the situation.

“Literally, this has been five weeks ago,” Williams says. “Literally, no one responds to any of my emails with the exception of Marriott, and that was only because I escalated after two weeks of the parking company not responding to me.”

Reporter Lowe says police have told him they do have a warrant for the arrest of a suspect in the theft but he has not heard back from the hotel management about the case.

“But I did speak with someone from the company that manages the valet service,” Lowe says. “They said they are, quote, ‘going to work with the victim through this process,’ but Robert Williams told me he did not hear from the valet company until after we contacted them.”

OnStar Leads Police to a C8 Corvette Stolen from a Charlotte Valet Service


You can watch the full news report at WSOC-TV.


Source:
wsoctv.com

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5 COMMENTS

  1. I paid 20,000 dollars over just to get my first vette. What was i to do? I got it this july!

  2. This doesn’t surprise me at all in Charlotte. There’s several places I won’t leave my C7 parked in Charlotte and I won’t leave it parked outside at night anywhere in this city.

  3. I feel so sorry for the C8 owner. I hope somehow everything gets resolved, and he can drive it once again. My heart goes out to this guy. And the guy who stole the Corvette, he should have the greatest penalty that the law can dish out.

  5. When I have to valet a car I drive my what I call my bar car I leave my C8 and Tahoe at home. When you valet a Corvette, you ask for a special parking spot that you yourself can park it in, and you keep the keys and pay them. They will let you do this because most valets don’t want to be responsible for it. I think in this situation the valet set this theft up for a nice kickback from the thief.

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