Cadillac Escalade-V Theft Ring Stole $1.5 Million in Supercharged SUVs, Police Say
There's no shortage of automotive theft rings in the U.S., but one Detroit-area group of car thieves appears to have had an extreme fixation on one very particular model. They weren't focused on high-end Mustangs or Mopar Hellcats, as you might expect; instead, they turned their attention to Cadillac's 682-hp Escalade-V, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press.
According to the Free Press, Macomb County law enforcement officers have arrested a 24-year-old suspect who they have accused of participating in an ongoing theft plot involving Cadillac Escalade V units stolen from a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan. The county's auto theft squad first started investigating the thefts in December 2024 after a string of high-end SUVs went missing from a lot on Van Dyke Avenue. These stolen models totaled up to $1.5 million in value, according to a Macomb County Sheriff's Office news release.
Court documents allege that the suspect nabbed numerous units of the 682-hp SUV, which were awaiting shipment to dealerships or used as corporate loaner cars. The suspect was charged with one count of criminal enterprise, and his bond was set at $2 million on Wednesday, March 19. If convicted, that could result in a sentence that puts the man behind bars for up to 20 years.
Detectives told the Detroit Free Press that the suspect was retagging the vehicles with cloned VIN numbers before selling them out of state. Law enforcement officials said the suspect was making a large profit on each model, but declined to be exact about how much money the suspect had made during his thieving career. Printers, retagging equipment, fraudulent registration documents, meth, jewelry, and even a Chrysler Pacifica were seized alongside the suspect, according to police
The suspect pled not guilty in court and will be required to wear a GPS tether if he makes bail. This is not the suspect's first brush with law enforcement, either: another district court in Romeo, Michigan, implicated the suspect in the theft of an automobile from a dealership in Washington Township last February. We can hardly condone the theft, but perhaps we can agree on our shared taste for supercharged V-8s.
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