LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — More than $650,000 in car parts were recovered and several people were arrested stemming from a bust of an illegal chop shop operating in Louisville and across state lines.
Louisville Police said stolen cars are being broken down and sold for parts. Police said search warrants were served in the last couple weeks at four different locations across the city in connection to the chop shop bust, and several suspects face felony charges.
Now, residents and business owners in Fairdale, where an auto body shop was raided, are wondering what's next.
Last week when Danielle McCorkle was working at her business on Mitchell Hill Road, she heard a loud bang coming from next door.
"The SWAT team came out and were shooting rubber bullets at the building," said McCorkle, witnessing just one part of LMPD's chop shop busts.
"First, I was scared," said McCorkle. "I didn't know what it was and then I was like 'Whoa, what is happening.'"
LMPD said multiple suspects were running a chop shop operation: breaking cars down into parts then selling them off for thousands of dollars.
The raid at White Shark Auto Parts located next to McCorkle's business is just one of at least four search warrants LMPD carried out across the city recently.
"We recovered approximately parts from 25 separate vehicles at a value of $650,000," LMPD Chief Paul Humphrey said during a news conference Wednesday.
According to court documents, search warrants in this case were also served throughout Louisville in the 3300 block of Woodland Drive, 7500 block of Michael Drive and 2700 block of 7th Street Road.
Humphrey said cars were stolen from Ohio, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and even from Canada. Not only did police recover stolen cars and car parts, but guns as well.
"We recovered multiple guns, nine guns in total as part of this investigation, two of those were stolen," Humphrey said Wednesday.
Six people have been arrested in connection with the chop shop bust:
- Amanda Guerrero, 35, of Louisville
- Alexis Goodman, 24, of Florida
- Andres Gijon-Gonzalez, 27, of Florida
- Joseph Probus, 50, of Louisville
- William Hutchens, 33, of Florida
- Larry Galyon, 38, of Louisville
"They were charged with a litany of crimes from engaging in organized crime and obscuring the identify of a machine," said Humphrey.
Guerrero, one of the six involved in the chop shop case, was arrested on Feb. 24 during the raid in the 7500 block of Michael Drive in Fairdale. She already pleaded not guilty to several charges including engaging in organized crime, receiving stolen property and trafficking in stolen vehicles or parts.
Guerrero was in court Wednesday, where her felony charges are being waived to a grand jury, and a judge kept her bond at $50,000 full cash. Her case will be brought to the grand jury the week of April 6.
"It is my understanding that there may be more arrest, and anyone who is connected with these people may be well served to turn themselves in
The other five people charged in this case will have their cases presented to the grand jury the week of March 9.
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