CHICAGO (CBS) — Seven Chicago suspects are charged in connection with luxury car robbery. It happened in Wisconsin about a year ago.
Some of the men indicted had already been convicted in connection with a horrific carjacking in Milwaukee.
Waukesha, Wisconsin, police video shows four of the suspects in action at a Jaguar and Land Rover dealership showroom on February 18, 2024. Another shot showed the car reversing into a dealer’s garage door.
Police said it was the work of a Chicago luxury car theft ring. A total of 9 vehicles were photographed.
“Basically, they just took the key chain away to see what kind of light the headlights would give off,” Waukesha Police Department Lt. Dan Bauman said last year.
Someone called police after witnessing masked men pushing all nine luxury cars into the same gas station.
Police arrested a man named Calvin Valentine after he threw a spike strip during a high-speed chase.
However, the other suspects fled. But five other cars were eventually found, one in Deerfield and four in Chicago.
“This wasn’t just a group of kids who stayed up late one night playing video games and decided, ‘Hey, let’s go see if nine of us can commit a crime two hours away.'” Mr. Bauman finally spoke. year.
But police say the suspects include Tramaine T. Walton, 18, and Correntis C. Neal, 19. And 20-year-old Lamont Stanton committed even more serious crimes. they were convicted of murdering a man Three months later, a carjacking occurred outside a Taco Bell in Milwaukee.
Stanley Smith Jr., 41, was shot and killed on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at approximately 6:20 p.m., outside the Taco Bell at 5630 W. North Avenue in Milwaukee’s Uptown neighborhood.
According to a criminal complaint reported by CBS 58 Milwaukee, Smith was at the Scene 1 Restaurant and Lounge on North Avenue in Milwaukee, a block away from the shooting scene. CBS 58 reports that the restaurant made an announcement warning patrons that someone was breaking into their cars in the parking lot.
CBS 58 reports that prosecutors say Smith intervened to prevent the vehicle from being stolen and was involved in a struggle with masked men near his black sport utility vehicle when Smith was shot and killed. However, he said he was spotted. He was shot four times, including two to the head, and died several days later.
Police are still searching for four suspects in the Waukesha car robbery: Dequarion Williams, Lamar Walker, Levar Ward, and Lamont Jackson.
Police said they were able to connect all the suspects because they were all on a group call at the time of the robbery.
There is another driver, but his identity is unknown.
