Thieves Stole 4 Porsches Worth $1M To Sell In Mexico, But It Didn’t Go As Planned
Officers caught up with four suspects and recovered the cars within just six hours of the heist
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by Stephen Rivers
Police say criminals stole almost a million dollars worth of Porsche 911s on March 12.
Within hours, authorities found the cars and arrested four suspects related to the crime.
Officers say the four men broke through a hole in a wall to gain access to the cars.
Stealing cars is never a smart move, but it’s especially questionable in some circumstances. The criminals in this story evidently weren’t that bright. They took high-profile Porsches, left a trail of evidence behind, and didn’t get very far before officers caught up with them. Now, rather than reaping the rewards of their crime south of the border, they’ll face serious jail time.
The incident went down in El Paso, Texas, on March 12. The cars in question include a 1971 Porsche 911, a 2014 Porsche 911, a 2007 911 Turbo, and a 2024 Porsche 911. Needless to say, these are expensive sports car that turn heads just about anywhere they go. That’s probably even more so the case in a place like El Paso.
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Local news agency KFox14 obtained police records related to the case. They do not paint a picture of genius masterminds. Evidently, the crew of four men bored through some drywall via a separate business connected to a storage unit. Once in, they snagged the cars and left, but they didn’t go very far. It’s not that police caught them before they could leave; rather, for whatever reason, they just didn’t go very far.
The four suspects abandoned two of the cars in alleyways nearby. In fact, one was reportedly a whole five minutes away from the scene of the crime. The other was six whole minutes away. Somewhat hilariously, police found another just four minutes away at 160 N. Cotton St and apprehended two suspects then and there.
It seems the suspects had dreams of an international getaway. Authorities say that one of the men admitted what the plan was: to take the cars to Mexico and sell them. Evidently, the suspects believed they could get the cars over the border via the Bridge of the Americas. The same person said he’d hoped to keep at least one of the cars obtained in the heist.
The entire operation unraveled in just six hours. The suspects—Corey Dana Reed, 37; Juan Reynaldo Ochoa, 43; Milton Castilleja, 36; and Luis Miguel Ubieta, 42—didn’t even manage to make it across town, let alone out of the country.
In the end, none of them will get to keep the cars, but they’ll have at least one more entry on their criminal records instead.
