Four members of a theft ring that stole more than 100 high end luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars from dealerships located across the United States. A federal court in Charlotte, NC sentenced them to prison on January 16, 2025. Garyka Bost, 26, Kevin Fields, 28, Dewanne White, 44, and Reginald Hill, 25, were all given prison terms. Garyka just gave birth, she was pregnant when she was stealing the cars. Follow Charlotte Alerts on Instagram.
The defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport, possess, and sell stolen vehicles in interstate commerce.
The suspects then sold the vehicles for a profit. The suspects orchestrated the thefts by pretending to test drive or inspect the vehicles as customers, the suspects would swap the vehicles’ key fobs with similar ones and later use the stolen key fobs to steal the vehicles.
Other times, the suspects employed methods like “smash and grab” thefts, where they would break into dealerships and locate keys to the high end vehicles, or break open lock boxes containing keys to luxury vehicles, and then drive the vehicles off the lot.
The suspects avoided law enforcement detection by removing the GPS navigation and tracking systems from the stolen vehicles, attaching fictitious dealer tags or stolen license plates on the vehicles, and replacing the vehicles’ authentic vehicle identification numbers. Garyka was pregnant when she stole some of the vehicles, she has two infant children.
After pleading guilty the suspects were sentenced as follows:
• Dewanne was sentenced to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
• Kevin was sentenced to 96 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.
• Reginald was sentenced to 60 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.
• Garyka was sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison followed by two years of supervised release.
