Police allege that Walker was one of nine men involved in the theft of the vehicles from the Kentucky plant on March 22. According to police, Walker has refused to speak to authorities after his arrest, but prior to receiving his Miranda rights, reportedly said, “If I would have made it back to Michigan, I would have been paid big.”
Police had also previously responded to a 911 call from a local woman who noticed a brand-new red Corvette in the parking lot of her apartment complex. She told police that the car still had the price stickers in the window and that she did not recognize the driver of the vehicle who was dressed completely in black. Warren County Sheriff’s deputies discovered another brand-new Corvette in the apartment complex parking lot and another new Corvette in a lot across the street. Two more new Corvettes were found parked on a nearby street, police said.
Assembly plant officials confirmed that the vehicles had been stolen from the facility. An inventory review discovered eight missing vehicles, according to police reports. Investigators believe the Corvettes were all stolen at the same time and driven from the plant using a hole cut in the security fence.
No other suspects have been arrested.
Walker has been charged in Kentucky with third-degree criminal trespass, a misdemeanor; second-degree criminal mischief, also a misdemeanor; and theft by unlawful taking of a vehicle worth more than $10,000 but less than $1 million, a 5- to 10-year felony.
