There are car thieves, and there are car thieves: Francisco Gonzalez-Velasquez, a 22-year-old man in Salt Lake City, is without a doubt, the latter. Gonzalez-Velasquez didn't just swipe a lowly Honda Accord late one night. No, instead he stole a $1.7 million Porsche 918 Spyder from a dealership showroom. On a Sunday. During the daytime.
That's what you call going for the jugular. Salt Lake City CBS affiliate KUTV reports that Gonzalez-Velasquez made off with the 918 after smashing the window and stealing the car's keys at Porsche Salt Lake City at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday. He was apprehended and arrested by police around 10:30 p.m. that night—less than two miles from the dealer.
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