Some car owners in Louisville are learning the hard way that locking your vehicle may not be enough — especially if you own one of a few specific models.
Clay Carter, 21, only had the car for three months before it was stolen off East Main Street while the recent graduate was at work.
LMPD says more than half of the vehicles in tow lot are on hold for homicide, traffic investigations
Metro Council's Public Works Committee called the officers who oversee the tow lot to testify Tuesday afternoon.
The suspects were recorded on surveillance cameras, so Cravens Cars and LMPD are asking for the community's feedback to identify them.
Police said it only takes about 15 seconds to steal a Kia -- and the problem is getting worse, with more of the vehicles winding up LMPD's impound lot.
Louisville Metro Police said it's because the vehicles have design flaws in most models between 2011 and 2022.
Kia is fighting back against a popular TikTok trend that showed viewers how to steal cars.
Progressive and State Farm have stopped offering insurance on vehicles that have been deemed too easy to steal in cities like Denver and St. Louis.
The measures seek to attract companies making a $2 billion investment in Kentucky, including at a state-owned site in Glendale, Ky., where officials failed to land a Hyundai plant in 2002.
Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that he will ask the GOP-led legislature to give the state’s recruiting team more flexibility in offering incentives for investment projects topping $2 billion.