destination. police and a tow truck quickly arrive. so does galveston county daily news reporter, chris paschenko, acting on a tip. >> when i arrived, i saw what i believed to be the exhaust bubbling out of the water. the vehicle was in about two feet deep of saltwater at that time. >> paschenko approaches the diver, andy house, who buys and sells high-performance cars through his texas business, performance auto sales. >> andy told me that he was distracted by a low-flying pelican. i think he then said that caused him to drop his cell phone. >> he says he reached down to get his cell phone, and when he looked back up, the car was in the marsh. jessica cooley is a crime and court reporter at the lufkin daily news. she and other journalists discovered when house purchased the 2006 bugatti for a little more than $1 million, he insured it for more than double that, $2.2 million. just three weeks after the