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The suspects, Anthony Carter, 46, of Wichita, Kansas, and Christopher Carter, 40, of Cleveland, North Carolina, were taken into custody at a Westchester County gas station in Yonkers on Wednesday, April 9, by Westchester County Police officers who had been alerted to a stolen Honda Accord possibly traveling through the area, the department announced on Thursday, April 10.
According to the department, the arrest was set into motion after police received an alert that the stolen car might be in the area of McLean Avenue in Yonkers. Patrol officers searched the neighborhood and spotted the vehicle at a gas station, where they promptly arrested both men.
What happened in Massachusetts
Earlier that day, at 7:23 a.m., the Milford Police Department in Massachusetts received a 911 call from a man reporting that his vehicle had just been stolen from the Holiday Inn Express on Fortune Boulevard. The victim had started his car to warm it up, briefly stepped back inside the hotel, and returned to find it gone, according to the department.
Surveillance video allegedly showed the two suspects approaching and driving off with the car around 7:17 a.m. Further footage revealed that the pair had arrived at the hotel in a marked Hopkinton, MA police cruiser, which had apparently given them a courtesy transport after they were criminally summonsed for driving a car with stolen plates earlier that day in Hopkinton, police said.
Detectives in Milford worked with Hopkinton Police to quickly identify the two men, and later learned that Westchester County Police had tracked them down through multi-agency crime-fighting tools.
Both suspects were booked into Westchester County Jail and are now awaiting extradition to Massachusetts, where they are facing multiple charges, including:
- Larceny of a motor vehicle;
- Receiving stolen property over $1,200;
- Four counts of conspiracy.
The incident prompted a tongue-in-cheek write-up from the Westchester County Police Department on social media:
"So what do you do when you've just been arrested for driving a car with a stolen license plate, get processed and released?" the department wrote, adding, "These two geniuses decided their next move was to steal a whole car."
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