![[STOLEN] Car Thieves Do Donuts in a Corvette Z06 After Theft from Dealership](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2025/04/041825_2.jpg)
Imagine being a car dealer and selling a Shark Gray 2016 Corvette Z06 to an out-of-state customer who’s paid for it and is going to pick it later in the week.
Then imagine being that same dealer and discovering that thieves had broken into your showroom and stolen that same Corvette days before the customer was to pick it up.
Filed in the “Sad But True” category, that’s exactly what happened to a Wisconsin dealership, where crooks used a rock to break in and go on a successful search for keys, whereupon they stole the aforementioned C7 as well as a 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.
As if the thefts weren’t bad enough, the suspects were captured on surveillance video spinning donuts in the stolen vehicles in front of the dealership!
“To steal the cars, high-performance cars, and do donuts and get away with it, it’s very hard to swallow,” owner Doug Schoepp said.
![[STOLEN] Car Thieves Do Donuts in a Corvette Z06 After Theft from Dealership](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2025/04/041825_1b.jpg)
The incident happened around 2:20 a.m. April 6 at Schoepp Motors in Middleton, according to the Middleton Police Department.
“They toured around the building and found a window, busted it with a rock, reached in, opened (the door) up,” said Schoepp, who’s been in the car business a long time but apparently not long enough to know you shouldn’t leave keys unsecured at night.
Schoepp has definitely learned his lesson the hard way, though, and promises ABC 27 Madison Wisconsin that “it’ll never happen again,” explaining that the keys are now hidden in a safe and pedal locks are being installed on all his remaining cars.
The dealership is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, and Crime Stoppers is adding another $1,000. If you have a tip that might solve the crime, contact the Middleton Police Department at 608-824-7300, or the Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014 or at p3tips.com.
Source:
RoadandTrack.com
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Where was the security?And why were the keys not locked in the safe to begin with.They have video but they were wearing masks,so no help there,a loud sounding alarm would have chased these criminals,now it’s closing the barns door after the crime!Sorrowful 🥵
Offer a $20k reward, and maybe someone will talk. Sad, but might work.
Drive it like you stole it! Oh, wait…
Cars are long gone either disassembled or in a container on there way to some shithole country.
At least the useless despicable lowlife sons of bitches have good tastes in cars.
Had my 2018 Corvette Z06/Z07 stolen ten feet away from me September 1st at gun point in Memphis. What a horrible experience.
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