By Shawn Henry 
A swiped Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, ripped off from Tennessee, cracked open a massive stolen-car ring that sprawled across state borders, complete with a shady chop shop and illegal pot farm, cops revealed.
It all started late September when Hendersonville police got tipped off about the muscle car vanishing into thin air. Following its trail, detectives zeroed in on a suspicious ride in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, by October 1. That bust wasn’t just luck—three more hot rides from Nashville turned up, and two guys got collared.
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Then, like clockwork, another beast—a Dodge Durango SRT—got jacked in the same area days later. Cops tracked it to some apartment block in Nashville, nabbing McGilmer and two others tangled in the whole mess.
But the real kicker? The hunt for that Hellcat steamrolled straight to Paint Rock, Alabama, where the car finally surfaced. That’s when Jonathan Wayne Pylant popped up on the radar, accused of tearing stolen rides apart for scraps. And get this: a raid on October 8 blew the lid off a full-blown chop shop, a VIN-swapping scam, and a weed grow-op. Stolen wheels from Georgia, Florida, and Memphis were piled up alongside enough car parts to build an army of Franken-cars.
Pylant got cuffed on a laundry list of charges, but the brains behind the operation? That title went to Shawn Murray Jr., a 25-year-old alleged kingpin hauled in on October 20 after warrants dropped for over $60K in thefts.
So far, this mess has tied up eight stolen-car cases across five states, and cops ain’t done yet. More arrests are brewing as agencies hustle to unravel the whole tangled web behind these brazen heists.
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