Tow truck stuck on video stealing automobile from proper out of doors Southeast Aspect auto frame store

CHICAGO (CBS) — It might be exhausting to consider if there were not video – a tow truck driving force used to be stuck stealing a automobile proper from an auto frame store just lately.

As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported, the landlord of an auto restore store in Chicago’s East Aspect group mentioned a buyer’s automobile used to be stolen in seconds via the tow truck.

The auto used to be lifted from a parking spot in entrance of Raul’s Auto Carrier, 10558 S. Street N. It used to be all captured on digicam.

In the meantime, as De Mar used to be out entrance chatting with proprietor Raul Alvarado, he used to be stopped via every other sufferer who says his automobile used to be additionally towed away in the course of the night time. 

It took not up to 20 seconds for any person riding a black sport-utility car with an connected wheel elevate to again up, hook a Prius, and power off.

“They use the ones vehicles for repos, however there used to be no repo right here. That used to be a buyer’s automobile,” Alvarado mentioned. “They’ll put it within the chop store – they do to these automobiles. I imply, they do recycling – the automobiles – for portions converters – all that stuff.”

The stolen automobile belonged to Alvarado’s consumers. He says the auto used to be swiped Sunday morning from out of doors his store, however police were not known as till he discovered the auto used to be long past Monday morning.

“The police have mentioned on this group that they have been stealing numerous the ones automobiles with the ones vehicles,” Alvarado mentioned.

And as we had been chatting with Alvarado, we met a person named Ralph Carrasco, who says his parked automobile used to be stolen the similar means closing week from out of doors his space – simply blocks from the car restore store.

“They picked it up and took off, and I have never observed it since,” Carrasco mentioned. “After we catch them, it will be over for them.”

Each sufferers declare they do not owe any cash for his or her automobiles.

In the meantime, safety pictures seems to turn the black truck that stole the auto from out of doors Raul’s didn’t have any license plates.

The that you simply noticed take off with the auto didn’t have any rear license plates that had been visual at the safety cameras.