Another Rolls-Royce Is Stolen During Car Transport

While stealing from car transport services isn’t anything new, there’s been a rash of ultra-luxury rides swiped that way lately. In fact, a case of a man in Michigan having the Rolls-Royce he purchased in South Florida stolen in transit isn’t the first time that brand of vehicle has been targeted.

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We don’t have details about exactly how the car was stolen. However, we’ve seen thieves turning to hacking transport companies’ servers, changing delivery information or using data they raid to text transport drivers, fooling them into delivering the vehicle to another location.

That might be what happened here, because the victim told WSVN-TV he doesn’t know how the Rolls-Royce disappeared. In other words, the transport driver wasn’t robbed at gunpoint or the truck taken as it sat idling unattended.

The report out of South Florida mentions other similar thefts from car transport companies, so we’re not the only ones making the connection. Thieves are getting more sophisticated and trickier, especially when going for cars worth well into the six digits.

Many of these criminals are part of theft organizations that have vast resources. Some operate internationally with the top guys living in countries which won’t extradite to the US or other Western countries where cars and other items are stolen.

Once taken, the cars are often smuggled to the Middle East or Africa to be resold. These organized theft rings make plenty off the crime, which they then use to fund other activities like human trafficking, arms deals, drug smuggling, etc.

In other words, while this story is about a guy in the Detroit area not receiving his Rolls-Royce he bought, to the average person it feels like it doesn’t affect them. The reality is that theft could fund other crimes which do directly affect all of us, which is part of the reason why we want to see these thieves busted and the organizations broken up.

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