Police are searching for a group of car thieves who made their way into a Hell\u2019s Kitchen garage early Sunday morning, attempting to steal luxury vehicles.<\/p>\n
A 2020 McLaren \u2014 valued between $200,000 and $400,000 \u2014 was\u00a0left heavily damaged after police said the thieves stole it from a parking garage on West 43rd Street, near the West Side Highway, only to crash it about a block away.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Police are searching for\u00a0four to five suspects who entered a Hell\u2019s Kitchen garage early Sunday morning, attempting to steal luxury vehicles
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A 2020 McLaren \u2014 valued between $200,000 and $400,000 \u2014 was stolen in the heist, but left heavily damaged when one of the suspects crashed it into a pole
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A parking attendant helped stop the theft by lowering the garage gate mid-incident, police said
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Midtown food truck owner Ahmed Kharboush said the scene felt like witnessing a movie shoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great car, you know what I mean? I think what happened is \u2014 he try to steal,\u201d said Kharboush. \u201cHe try to take the turn over here, and he just smash into the pole, he doesn\u2019t know how to drive it so why he steal it?\u201d<\/p>\n
According to police, the incident began around 6 a.m., when four to five men attempted to steal luxury vehicles from the garage in what investigators described as an auto theft operation.<\/p>\n
Inside the garage, the group gained access to a McLaren, a Range Rover and other luxury vehicles, police said. A parking attendant lowered the metal gate during the heist, cutting off the group\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n
One suspect was able to drive off in the McLaren but crashed shortly afterward into a nearby pole. The group then fled the scene in their own BMW.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean that\u2019s crazy. I can\u2019t believe that people would really try that, and I\u2019m glad it didn\u2019t go far, but I hope the car is okay,\u201d said Mollie Fink.<\/p>\n
According to NYPD data, auto thefts rose slightly from 1,021 incidents in March 2025 to 1,049 this March, marking an increase of about 2.7%.<\/p>\n
However, overall auto theft is down so far this year. From January through March, there were 2,773 reported incidents, compared with 3,148 during the same period last year, marking a decrease of about 11.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a group of car thieves who made their way into a Hell\u2019s Kitchen garage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10015,25,303,75,84,83,9,24,12,6019,63,27,200],"class_list":["post-187521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-crime","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-noorulain-khawaja","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}