It was a graduation gift that was gone in an instant.
A Prince George’s County mom is desperately looking for the car she bought just a few short months ago for her son. It’s a vehicle she says is worth nearly $80,000.
The theft happened early Monday morning in the Beltsville area.
Mimi Arnett and her son’s dad got the 2023 Camaro sports car for his graduation from the University of Maryland.
“He said mommy, my blessing from you would be a Camaro ZL1,” she said. “I said, ‘You know what, I’m gonna make it happen since you’re such a good kid, and me and his dad did just that.”
At 3 a.m. on Memorial Day. She heard the car start and ride away just out back of their home in the Brickyard neighborhood in Beltsville, but it wasn’t her son behind the wheel.
“My son was in his room, knocked out asleep, and I said, oh my God, my son’s car has been stolen,” Arnett said.
A neighbor provided surveillance video Arnett says shows a light colored car, then her son’s car, leaving the neighborhood. It hasn’t been seen since. The only trace of what happened was shattered glass in the space where it had been parked.
“Angry, because I work so hard,” she said. “I work very hard, you know I’m a traveling nurse, so for someone to just come and take something that belongs to you that you work so hard for, it’s like, I dare you.”
A quick google search shows this model of car has one of the highest theft rates, due, in part, to a key fob vulnerability — something GM addressed through a software update. But it’s unclear how thieves were able to start Arnett’s son’s car.
“They were able to get in and take right off with it,” she said.
Residents told News4 this is not the first car to be stolen in this neighborhood and that there have been car break-ins over the last several months.
A neighbour said his sister’s car was also stolen, and certain types of cars — the Infinity and Lexus — seem to be targets.
“It’s professionals because it doesn’t really take them that long to kind of get into the car, get over the security system and just drive off,” he said.
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