like someone s driveway? yeah. yeah, right next to the car, right on the driveway. in the driveway of the house? no, in the garage. the garage was wide open. he almost from the very beginning is justifying why he stole this car. telling the undercover detectives that somebody stupidly left their keys sitting next to the car that was parked outside in the driveway. it was almost like, you know, that made it okay to steal that car. the problem is, is that s not what happened. we know from talking to the victim that the car was locked in the garage. so levi was able to get into the garage, he was able to get his hands on the keys. and he took that car. find one there basically what the cops did was take one of these magazines that advertises used cars, auto trader, wheeler dealer, and they would assign a real value to a car based upon what a similar
including people who are selling stolen vehicles. do you know anything about this? absolutely not. not at all. did you sell anyone any stolen vehicles? absolutely not. no? no trucks? no dodge chargers? absolutely not. none of that. you re sure? i m positive. because maybe is this a big mix-up. wasn t me. do you think that s what it was? i don t know what it is. so you never have stolen a truck or a car or you never i went to prison for stolen cars. you did? yeah. when was that? 2005. and how long did you three years. three years in prison. uh-huh. how was that? it s prison. prison is prison. yeah. and so they take your freedom. you re from where? i m from dateline nbc, i m a reporter. okay. you ever watch tv is this. i don t watch tv. it s interesting, because there is a good chance you re going to be on television. there is a situation where people came into this
car was advertised for in a magazine. so say if a toyota came in, and the magazine said it was worth $20,000, they would pay $200 for every $10,000 which means 400 bucks would go to the crook. that s an 05, so an 07, two more grand to it, because keys that s an 05. so and it s nine grand, so you re looking at like 12. so we ll say 250 even. and then on the cad owe. it s anywhere from 13,000 up to 25. so, you know we ll call it like 18. and we ll do 300 for the caddy. and i ll do 250 on the kia. okay. levi ends up being a pretty big player in this operation. he comes back four times. selling about a half dozen cars. so he s very active in this investigation. so levi leaves the storefront.
storefront with one of chevy s friends. that s the kind of car that, i mean, i probably would go like 200 bucks on. okay? i told her if you guys are willing to do some more business with us, and, you know, we re going to establish something, you know what, i ll always kick in a little bit more to keep coming back, because that brings me money. if you re [ bleep ] quitting one time and that s it, then you know, 200 bucks and we re done. all right. so it s up to you guys. all right. we re going to keep you busy. well, we ll do 300 on this ride. chevy is somebody who is obviously very comfortable in criminal circles. she sees a business opportunity here. she has all these contacts in the criminal world. and she really believes that she can bring in a lot of folks with stolen cars to sell. and, in fact, she does. this is the last the next time chevy comes in, she brings two more cars, and five guns. that s a pretty big deal, because now you re starting to see a very s
guns are huge, because i don t have to chop them up. that won t be a mustang by tomorrow afternoon. that will be some wheels, a rim and a fender. but the guns, they re out of town once a week. so if you get some, you will get as much almost for an entire gun as you would for a car. because the problem is, i might be able to sell the air bag out of that car, and the windshield and the rest of it is garbage to me. when you come across computers and stuff everything. all the time. i told alicia. everybody who shows up and says your name, you get money on the back end. okay. there are always two undercover cops there at the storefront out front. when chevy is there, one of them actually goes outside. to look at this mustang. to see, in fact, if it is what she is advertising. so for a little while, you just see the two of them. and then the undercover cop who went outside to look at the car actually comes back into the