Thieves made off with 13 F-150 Raptors and 6 Mustangs from Ford Motor Co. meeting crops within the Detroit space this month. A majority of the autos had been later discovered broken.
The Raptors — a wider, extra off-road-oriented model of Ford’s top-selling F-Sequence pickup — had been value a complete of virtually $1 million, The Detroit News reported.
Ford reported them stolen from a storage lot outdoors its Dearborn Truck Plant over the course of a number of days.
Police ultimately discovered all of the vehicles and charged one particular person with two felonies. It wasn’t clear whether or not all the Raptor thefts had been associated.
“They had been in various states of disrepair; some had elements, primarily tires, stripped away, and others had indicators of harm presumably associated to ramming,” Dearborn metropolis spokesperson Bilal Baydoun advised the Information.
The Raptor thefts occurred just a few days after six high-performance Mustangs had been taken from outdoors the Flat Rock Meeting Plant south of Detroit.
The vehicles had been pushed proper previous a guard on the plant’s gate, according to WDIV-TV. Michigan State Police arrested one particular person and recovered the Mustang that he was driving after a brief chase, and officers in Detroit later discovered two of the opposite vehicles unoccupied.
