'Organized' luxury car theft ring targets Waukesha dealership, police searching for eight thieves

'We're going to call them kids. These are an organized group of teenagers out of Chicago,' Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann said Monday.

'We're going to call them kids. These are an organized group of teenagers out of Chicago,' Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann said Monday.

WATCH OUT FOR TONIGHT. FIRST AT FIVE, A LUXURY CAR HEIST IN WAUKESHA LEADS TO A 40 MILE CHASE AND CRASH. ON INTERSTATE 94, CAPTURED ON VIDEO. NINE CARS TAKING POLICE ON A CHASE SPANNING MULTIPLE COUNTIES. EVEN SPILLING INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. 12 NEWS HANNAH HILYARD JOINS US LIVE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN IN WAUKESHA. HANNAH. POLICE ARRESTED ONE PERSON. THEY’RE NOW LOOKING FOR EIGHT OTHERS TONIGHT, RIGHT, PATRICK. SO WITH ONE TEENAGER IN CUSTODY RIGHT NOW, WAUKESHA POLICE BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR EIGHT MORE TEENAGERS. THEY BELIEVE THIS GROUP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVING OFF A NINE HIGH END CARS FROM THIS WAUKESHA DEALERSHIP. MULTIPLE VEHICLES. A LAND ROVER, A WAUKESHA DEALERSHIP FULL OF HIGH END CARS TARGETED BY WHAT POLICE ARE DESCRIBING AS AN ORGANIZED THEFTRILLIONING. WE’RE GOING TO CALL THEM KIDS. THESE ARE THESE ARE ORGANIZED GROUP OF TEENAGERS OUT OF CHICAGO. WAUKESHA POLICE CAPTAIN DAN BAUMAN SAYS THE GROUP HIT THIS LAND ROVER AND JAGUAR DEALERSHIP 6 A.M. SUNDAY. A STOLEN VEHICLE COMES TO A MINIVAN, COMES TO THE DEALERSHIP. THEY OPEN THE SERVICE DOOR AND NINE SUBJECTS RUN OUT THROUGHOUT. THERE LOOKING FOR KEYS. ONE PERSON FINDS WHERE THE KEYS WERE HIDDEN AND THEN STARTS TO DISSEMINATE THOSE THROUGH OUT HIS HIS FRIENDS. POLICE SAY THE NINE TEENS TOOK OFF FROM THE LOT IN NINE VEHICLES AND STARTED HEADING SOUTH. SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY SPEEDWAY. WANT TO WAIT FOR A TRUCKER? NEWER BMW AND A RANGE ROVER WITH NO PLATES IN WEST ALLIS, POLICE BEGAN CHASING THE STOLEN CARS ONTO INTERSTATE 894 AND EVENTUALLY SOUTH ON I-94, WHERE THIS STATE TRANSPORTATION VIDEO NEAR PLEASANT PRAIRIE SHOWS THE TIRES OF ONE RANGE ROVER START TO SPARK. THIS RANGE ROVER. LAFONT, ROBERT, THIS ONE SLOWING DOWN. I’M GOING TO STICK WITH ALLEN, BUT THE SUV CRASHED INTO ANOTHER CAR BEFORE COMING TO A STOP. POLICE ARRESTED A 17 YEAR-OLD DRIVER. COULD THERE BE ADULTS INVOLVED WHEN IT COMES TO TURNING THESE CARS OVER? MAYBE PAYING THE KIDS SOME MONEY TO TO GET VEHICLES LIKE THIS? YES, I’M NOT NAIVE TO SUGGEST THAT, BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THESE KIDS JUST HAVE NOTHING TO DO AND THEY JUST WANT TO COMMIT CRIMES. HANNAH. POLICE BELIEVE THIS GROUP HAS TARGETED OTHER DEALERSHIPS IN THE REGION. RIGHT, PATRICK. HOWEVER, WAUKESHA POLICE BELIEVE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THIS PARTICULAR GROUP HAS HIT A WAUKESHA DEALERSHIP TO THIS SCOPE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, POLICE HAVE ALREADY RECOVERED SIX OF THE STOLEN VEHICLES. YOU HAVE THE ONE RECOVERED DOWN IN PLEASANT PRAIRIE. ANOTHER FOUND ABANDONED IN DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS, AND THEN FOUR FOUND I

'Organized' luxury car theft ring targets Waukesha dealership, police searching for eight thieves

'We're going to call them kids. These are an organized group of teenagers out of Chicago,' Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann said Monday.

The Waukesha Police Department said an "organized" luxury car theft ring made up of Chicago teenagers was likely the group behind an early morning vehicle heist at a Waukesha dealership early Sunday morning. The Waukesha Police Department said officers responded to the Jaguar/Land Rover on Moreland Boulevard in Waukesha around 9 a.m. after a maintenance worker noticed significant damage to a service garage door. Police believe the vehicles were stolen around 6 a.m."A stolen vehicle, a minivan, comes to the dealership. They open the service door, and nine subjects went throughout there looking for keys. One person finds where the keys were hidden and then starts to disseminate those to his friends," Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann told WISN 12 News Monday. According to police, eight of the stolen vehicles were from the dealership. The ninth was a customer's car. West Allis police said they got a tip from a caller about the cars traveling in a pack near South 108th Street and Theo Trecker in West Allis.The caller told police the people in the cars had their faces covered.West Allis officers located the group of vehicles on Greenfield Avenue, and the drivers took off onto Interstate 894.West Allis police chased the vehicles south on I-894 and onto southbound Interstate 94.Wisconsin Department of Transportation cameras captured the nearly 40-mile chase and one of the Range Rovers crashing near Pleasant Prairie. Watch that moment in the video below. Waukesha police have the 17-year-old driver of the crashed Range Rover in custody. With the help of other law enforcement agencies, they continue to search for eight other thieves. As of Monday afternoon, Waukesha investigators had recovered six of the nine stolen vehicles. They said four of them were found in Chicago.

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The Waukesha Police Department said officers responded to the Jaguar/Land Rover on Moreland Boulevard in Waukesha around 9 a.m. after a maintenance worker noticed significant damage to a service garage door. Police believe the vehicles were stolen around 6 a.m.

"A stolen vehicle, a minivan, comes to the dealership. They open the service door, and nine subjects went throughout there looking for keys. One person finds where the keys were hidden and then starts to disseminate those to his friends," Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann told WISN 12 News Monday.

According to police, eight of the stolen vehicles were from the dealership. The ninth was a customer's car.

West Allis police said they got a tip from a caller about the cars traveling in a pack near South 108th Street and Theo Trecker in West Allis.

The caller told police the people in the cars had their faces covered.

West Allis officers located the group of vehicles on Greenfield Avenue, and the drivers took off onto Interstate 894.

West Allis police chased the vehicles south on I-894 and onto southbound Interstate 94.

Wisconsin Department of Transportation cameras captured the nearly 40-mile chase and one of the Range Rovers crashing near Pleasant Prairie. Watch that moment in the video below.

Waukesha police have the 17-year-old driver of the crashed Range Rover in custody. With the help of other law enforcement agencies, they continue to search for eight other thieves.

As of Monday afternoon, Waukesha investigators had recovered six of the nine stolen vehicles. They said four of them were found in Chicago.

'Organized' luxury car theft ring targets Waukesha dealership, police searching for eight thieves

'We're going to call them kids. These are an organized group of teenagers out of Chicago,' Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann said Monday.

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