Hackers steal former Cubs slugger Kris Bryant’s Lamborghini
CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. (CBS) — Hackers recently stole former Chicago Cubs slugger Kris Bryant’s luxury car.
Back on Oct. 2, Bryant became entangled in an investigation into a vehicle theft ring. The current Colorado Rockies third baseman hired a company to move his $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan from his residence in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, to his off-season home in Las Vegas—but the car never made it there.
Investigators said hackers infiltrated the company transporting Bryant’s car and rerouted it to different location in Las Vegas.
Police found the car five days later, according to a Denver Post report. The man driving the car told police he owned a maintenance shop and had been asked by a man from Texas to fix the computer system for the Lamborghini, the Denver Post reported.
That Texas man, identified in published reports as Dat Viet Tieu, is now charged with operating a multi-state vehicle theft ring.
Former Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant recently found himself at the center of a theft ring when he attempted to move his Lamborghini from Colorado to his off-season home.
Bryant, who served on the World Series-winning 2016 team, currently plays for the Colorado Rockies.
Bryant’s custom gray 2023 Lamborghini Huracán was picked up at his home in suburban Denver by a transport company on Sept. 29, but it never arrived at Bryant’s Las Vegas residence, police in the suburb of Cherry Hills Village said. The car is valued at more than $300,000.
“You see this stuff in movies… You never think you’re gonna have a case that is that elaborate and takes multiple agencies to coordinate,” officer Justin Smith, one of the detectives who worked on the case, told KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver.
Police determined, through an investigation, that the transport company’s email system had been hacked, allowing the suspect to reroute the car to an unauthorized location.
Using a license plate recognition system, Cherry Hills Village detectives tracked the Lamborghini to Las Vegas, where it was seen traveling on the city’s east side. Police in the Denver suburb contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, whose officers apprehended the driver.
Police records obtained by the Denver Gazette show the driver is a mechanic, who provided a crucial lead. The mechanic said the Lamborghini was dropped off by 58-year-old Dat Viet Tieu, a man based in Texas.
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