Thieves Attempt To Steal Chevy Camaro Units From Lansing Grand River Plant
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Two teenaged suspects were arrested earlier this week after stealing a pair of Chevy Camaro sports cars from the GM Lansing Grand River plant in Michigan.
According to a report from regional NBC news affiliate WILX 10, the two 19-year-old suspects from Detroit were taken into custody Monday morning.
Authorities reportedly received a call around 2:30 a.m. local time that claimed two men were attempting to steal the Chevy Camaro sport cars from the southwest parking lot of the GM assembly facility near Olds Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Authorities say that one of the suspects collided with a concrete barrier before attempting to escape on foot, but was subsequently caught and arrested. The second suspect managed to exit the parking lot, but collided with a fence near Michigan Avenue and Canal Street before fleeing on foot and was eventually caught and arrested.
The automaker addressed the incident with a statement:
“General Motors is working with local law enforcement. We will pursue prosecution of the involved individuals to the fullest extent of the law,” GM stated. “As we do as a normal course in our operations, we are reviewing our procedures to tighten security at the plant.”
The GM Lansing Grand River plant has been a target for thieves several times in the last few months. As GM Authority reported previously, a total of seven Chevy Camaro sport cars were stolen from the facility earlier in May, leading to a series of high-speed chases and several arrests. Law enforcement deployed “stop sticks” to puncture the tires of the Chevy Camaros after police agencies “flooded” local interstates in search of the stolen vehicles. Of the seven Chevy Camaros stolen, five were immediately recovered. The value of the vehicles recovered was estimated at $375,000.
The GM Lansing Grand River plant was the target for car thieves early in March as well, per previous GM Authority coverage.
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Impressive the car is not all black
How does this happen? Are cars still that easy to hot wire? Sounds like lowercase gm needs to tighten up their lax security.
I’d assume keys are left in them – thinking about key logistics in a lot of >500 cars makes me shudder.
That is correct. They leave the fobs with the vehicle as they await transport.
GM is hardly the only automaker to have vehicles stolen from storage at an assembly plant. Ford had 7 new Raptors stolen from the Dearborn plant last month. Several of them were later found stripped and dumped.
Stellantis has also had plants targeted.
Yesterday ford had several Mustangs that were stolen while Stellantis lost at least 2 Grand Wagoneers.
To suggest this is a GM problem is ridiculous
The keys are in them
Get out those cattle prods!
Who’s the head of security at GM Dudley Downright?
Wherever Detroit shows up trouble will follow
I am glad that I picked up my 2023 ZL1 from my dealer a week ago and it is now safely parked in my locked garage. As I see it, problem 1: is that transportation of new built Camaros from the overflowing storage lots to dealerships can take months, my ZL1 required almost exactly one month to be shipped after being built. Problem 2: is that if the ignition key(s) are left in the Camaro, the car be started and driven away. Overworked employees “may” leave the packet containing the keys in the cars for convenance, an open invitation for thieves to “have at it”!
Suggest GM’s loss control department visit Richie Brothers Auctioneers sales and storage yard in Los Angeles. Check out the perimeter fence with the sensors to detect cut fence wire. The concertina razor wire on the top of the fence is only a half measure. The bad actors are fence cutters. This is where you need the sensor detection. It’s all about keeping the bad actors out, or bad actors in with correctional facilities.
Also contact the Nevada Department of Corrections for their fence security measures at their maximum security facility in Ely, Nevada. Years ago as a loss control consultant for the State of Nevada, I helped Ely State Prison with their security and electrical issues.
Done correctly, you will have no future problems.
And, near Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Who would have guessed that theft might be a concern?
While I agree that gm needs better security to avoid these problems, the root of the problem is the criminal element. We need to build more prisons, not less. We need tougher laws and DA’s that will prosecute these criminals. Being soft on crime equals more crime. Simple as that.
Smokefoot:
It’s a proven given that approximately 5% of the human population are bad actors. It’s a human character defect within the bad actor DNA. Always has been, always will be. In some countries, particularly second and third world countries, bad acting has become part of the culture. In some Latino countries like Mexico, theft has become a regular part of life and the culture. Just look at the use of glass shards aligning the tops of residential walls in Mexico in an attempt to keep the bad actors out.
It’s not about building more prisons and lengthy punishment terms. Correctional institutions are bad actor training grounds. It’s all about theft abatement measures, hardening the facility, electronic alarm systems, dogs, detection devices, security personnel, door and window guards, glass block and narrow portal windows, motion detectors, etc. The right design and hardware will make your insurance company happy and help reduce your insurance premiums.
I’m from Cleveland, Ohio, a hot bed of bad acting. My uncle was a Lt. in the Cleveland Police Department. He and two fellow officers went out on a call in August 1968 and all three were shot and killed by bad actors in the line of duty.
Loss control is both an art and science.
Remember, the bad actors will always be with us.
na, what we need are laws like some asian countries have. You steal, you get your hands cut off. But oh, that is to harsh for some people, so it doesn’t happen. I bet those teenagers were such good kids in their community to.
Gm had better WOKE up. I wonder why if gm has to leave the keys in the cars why can’t Onstar keep them from unauthorized starting?