{"id":1420435,"date":"2022-04-05T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420435"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:45:14","slug":"chicago-car-thief-busted-after-crook-asks-cops-to-help-him-find-stolen-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-car-thief-busted-after-crook-asks-cops-to-help-him-find-stolen-sports-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Car Thief Busted After Crook Asks Cops to Help Him Find Stolen Sports Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-car-thief-busted-after-crook-asks-cops-to-help-him-find-stolen-sports-car%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chicago Police officers arrested a man suspected of being part of a car theft ring after he asked officers to help him find a stolen Dodge Challenger Hellcat he had misplaced in the parking lot at O\u2019Hare airport.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2022\/04\/ohare-auto-thief-busted-after-asking-cops-to-help-him-find-his-stolen-sports-car-prosecutors-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>, the suspect was already out on bail for a felony gun case and yet another car theft that resulted in a police car chase, according to CWBChicago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cops busted an auto theft ring that has been targeting  an O&#8217;Hare parking garage after one of the thieves allegedly asked officers to help him find his (stolen) Dodge Hellcat in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>He was on bail for another stolen car case and a gun case.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JLccpHsoi3\">https:\/\/t.co\/JLccpHsoi3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CWBChicago\/status\/1511368816017686528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officers became suspicious when they realized the suspect mentioned the orange Hellcat, a car they had been warned about as having been seen during other recent carjackings.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Loukas Kalliantasis also noted the Hellcat itself had been stolen in February.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kalliantasis told media the suspect, Desean Thomas, had been seen on surveillance video driving the orange Dodge during car thefts in February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Police were onto Thomas last Saturday as soon as he appeared in the Hellcat at O\u2019Hare. But Thomas went right to them, allegedly asking for their assistance finding the car because he could not remember where he parked it in the airport parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>CPD officers reported seeing Thomas\u2019 accomplice, who they say dropped a backpack found filled with car theft supplies including key fobs and a programming device.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrested Thomas, he was allegedly found in possession of a key fob that unlocked the Hellcat.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and was ordered held on $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s previous arrests include an earlier stolen vehicle charge from August and a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm in January when police found a social media video post showing Thomas firing a gun.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Police officers arrested a man suspected of being part of a car theft ring after he asked officers to help him find a stolen Dodge Challenger Hellcat he had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}