[STOLEN] Police Arrest Michigan Man in Theft of Eight Corvettes Including a New ZR1 from the Assembly Plant

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[STOLEN] Police Arrest Michigan Man in Theft of Eight Corvettes Including a New ZR1 from the Assembly Plant

Photo Credit: Tyson D Wade


A 21-year-old Michigan man is in custody after he and others apparently cut through the fence of the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green and stole eight Corvettes from the lot. One of those cars was a new 2025 Corvette ZR1.

WNKY reports that all eight Corvettes have been located.


Our friend Mark Thomas shared a read-out of the theft report from the Warren County Sheriff’s Department on Facebook and the story is even more bizarre as the officials at the plant at first didn’t realize the cars were missing.

At 10:00 am, the Warren County Sheriff’s Department found a “new maroon Corvette” with all its stickers and coverings at Laurel Ridge Apartment at 490 Plano Road, which is more than eight miles from the Assembly Plant. Believing the car to be stolen off the lot, the Bowling Green Police Department was contacted to see if the assembly plant had reported a theft. If not, let them know “they were missing a $160,000 Corvette.”

Security at the Assembly Plant was able to find a hole that thieves had cut in a fence to remove the cars. After doing an inventory check, the assembly plant determined there were eight cars missing. Warren County Sheriff’s Officers found a second Corvette at the 500 Plano Road and a third was located at 769 Plano Road. Several others were located at Cumberland Trace Village Apartments which are across from the Bowling Green Harley Davidson dealership.

Stolen Corvette ZR1
Stolen Corvette ZR1

In these photos posted with permission from Tyson D Wade to a Bowling Green Facebook page, you can see Red Corvette ZR1 with the High Wing and there is a police car in the background. In the second photo, the two other Corvettes with this ZR1 are both Z06s, so the thieves were going for the high performance models.

Deantae Walker (21) of Westland, Michigan was arrested and is charged with receiving stolen property of $10,000 or more, fleeing or evading police, and resisting arrest.

[STOLEN] Police Arrest Michigan Man in Theft of Eight Corvettes Including a New ZR1 from the Assembly Plant


Source:
Tyson D Wade and Mark Thomas

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  3. So thieves get high wing ZR1s and paying customers don’t? And, the people who bought these cars from the thieves were probably going to get warranties even though the thieves didn’t hold them for the six month/one year period? A line from The Three Stooges…”This house has sho gone crazy!” 🤔🙄😱🤷‍♂️😂

  4. It’s bad enough that these thieves are bottom feeders, but to also go through life as a complete moron is icing on the cake.

  5. There are so many wake up calls in the queue this little incident will go down a mere child’s play. Stay tuned…

  6. They probably found them using Onstar. In the Detroit area, they are always stealing cars from assembly plants, cutting fences, and key fobs are in the cars, but they are very low on fuel, so they can’t go far sometimes, they get caught at gas stations. They do Mustangs and Dodge’s all the time.

  9. As soon as I heard about this my heart sank. Fortunately my TPW is in April.
    It would really suck to wait 3 months only to get a thief used C8.
    OnStar does work well for stolen cars. Had my Yukon Denali stolen at 3:32am. Got it back at 5:47am. With everything in it.
    The crazy thing is no GTA in California unless they trash it. They did get felonies for the bikes that were stolen. But only did 18 months. Hopefully Ky. Has stricter laws for such deviants.

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