{"id":270444,"date":"2026-08-23T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:34:12","slug":"three-sought-in-armed-theft-of-lamborghini-porsche-from-old-city-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270444\/","title":{"rendered":"Three sought in armed theft of Lamborghini, Porsche from Old City garage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia police are searching for three men who allegedly held a parking garage attendant at gunpoint early Thursday and drove off with an orange or yellow Lamborghini and a dark gray Porsche from the Old City neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The robbery happened at approximately 4:23 a.m. at Old City Parking on the 300 block of Race Street, near 3rd Street. The brazen theft of two luxury vehicles from a staffed, downtown garage has rattled workers and regular customers at a lot that had operated for years without a violent incident.<\/p>\n

Masked men shattered the booth window with handguns<\/p>\n

Police said two masked men dressed in all black and wearing gloves approached the parking booth window and struck it with handguns. One of the suspects then used a window punch tool to shatter the glass before kicking it in.<\/p>\n

The employee inside the booth opened the door, and one of the suspects pointed a black semiautomatic handgun at him. A third man remained in a dark-colored vehicle parked near the booth during the robbery.<\/p>\n

The garage manager, Gerald Amadou, told NBC10 the men ordered the employee to get on the ground and demanded keys to a specific blue\/gray Porsche and an orange Lamborghini.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey knew what they were doing. When they took the keys, they just ran straight to the cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspects took two sets of keys from inside the booth, found the vehicles in the lot and fled in the stolen Lamborghini, the stolen Porsche and the third dark-colored vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained by NBC10<\/a> shows the vehicles speeding out of the parking garage in quick succession, with the dark-colored car leaving first, followed by the Porsche and then the Lamborghini.<\/p>\n

Attendant cut by broken glass, taken to Pennsylvania Hospital<\/p>\n

The employee sustained lacerations to his left lower leg from the shattered booth window. Medics transported him to Pennsylvania Hospital, where he was treated for his injuries. Police confirmed the employee is recovering physically.<\/p>\n

Investigators did not release the models of the stolen vehicles. Police have not provided descriptions of the suspects beyond their dark clothing and gloves, and there have been no updates on whether the cars have been recovered.<\/p>\n

Nine years without a violent incident at the garage<\/p>\n

Diallo Amadou, who has worked at the garage for nine years, told FOX 29 that Thursday\u2019s robbery was the first violent incident he could remember at the location. He described speaking with his coworker after the crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t want any trouble, he just opened the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amadou said he was not letting the robbery scare him away from a job he loves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come in here, I leave, I\u2019m working 7 to 4 and you know, I\u2019m not scared, I\u2019m not scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscar Ponce, a regular customer who parks his own car next to the Lamborghini, told NBC10 he was surprised to hear about the theft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the neighborhood is pretty safe, this is just very unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garage thefts citywide are down, but the case remains open<\/p>\n

Vehicle thefts from parking garages across Philadelphia are down compared to this time last year, according to police data cited by NBC10. Still, the targeted nature of Thursday\u2019s robbery stood out. The garage manager said the suspects appeared to know exactly which cars they wanted and where to find the keys.<\/p>\n

The investigation remains active and ongoing. Police have not said what led the suspects to target this particular garage or how they may have known which vehicles were parked there.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about the robbery or the whereabouts of the stolen vehicles is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Department\u2019s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). Tips can be submitted anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are searching for three men who allegedly held a parking garage attendant at gunpoint early Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-270444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}