Car Theft Ring Stole Over $1 Million Worth of Mostly Camaros and Corvettes in 2 Months, Cops Say

The thieves made around $150,000 selling the 29 cars, according to law enforcement officials.
Road and Track, By Emmet White, August 14, 2025

It seems the idea of stealing high-performance Chevrolets is in the air. The Chevy Camaro ZL1 topped the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's most stolen car list just a few weeks ago; now, the Plano Police Department in Texas is claiming it has busted up a million-dollar car theft ring focused on Camaros and Corvettes, according to Dallas-area NBC 5 News.

The theft ring spread around a dozen cities and had amassed a collection of 29 stolen cars at its peak, according to statements provided by the Plano Police Department. The thieves reportedly targeted apartment building and gym parking lots and focused primarily on Chevrolet's hottest models. One Chevrolet Camaro SS that was stolen had a dash camera installed, which caught the suspects smashing both side windows before entering the vehicle.

"Essentially, they're doing their intel work. They want to know where that vehicle is and where it's going to be parked later at night to better ensure the fact that they can come back and it's going to be located there and they're not wasting their time," Detective Stephen Howell of the Plano Police Department said to NBC 5.

But the stolen rides didn't head straight to Facebook Marketplace or the chop shop. Instead, Howell says the thieves would joyride around in the muscle cars, often posting the antics to Instagram. Specific examples cited by the Plano Police Department include social media videos of a suspect doing donuts in a V-8 Camaro, and a selfie video of another suspect driving a stolen Corvette. It was these videos that helped the Plano Police Department locate a storage unit where the stolen cars were being kept.

"We continued our investigation to figure out that they were renting storage units to store the stolen vehicles in," Howell told NBC 5. "They made about $150,000 in two months."

All told, the theft ring allegedly took $1.1 million dollars’ worth of cars, but Plano Police claim the suspects weren't even selling the cars for full value. Most of the stolen Corvette and Camaros were sold for the sum of $5000, which is well below market rate for even the most tattered examples.

The Plano Police Department released the mugshots of five suspects arrested in connection to this American muscle theft ring. The local law enforcement agency was quick to say these suspects were not linked to a previous luxury car theft ring, which was raided earlier this year. Either way, consider this bust further evidence that Camaro owners should keep a close eye on their cars ... and perhaps invest in extra security measures.

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