High-speed cars, high-stakes crimes—Boston's own have allegedly rumbled at full throttle into a million-dollar luxury car heist drama, complete with wild gunfire in broad daylight. Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell pulled back the curtain on a brazen luxury car theft operation, indicting two young men, Dyllan Lopes, and Angelo Henderson, on a laundry list of charges. Talk about grand theft autos hitting the streets, with an estimated haul north of a cool million, as the press released by the Massachusetts AG's Office.
The allegations against 21-year-old Lopes and 19-year-old Henderson paint a chilling snapshot of criminal enterprise: auction frauds, brazen thefts, and a trigger-happy afternoon that almost turned Dorchester into a shooting gallery. Lopes, with a 31-charge rap sheet spanning six counties, is tucked away in the clink on a $100,000 bond, while Henderson, charged in two counties, swiped the get-out-of-jail card with a $12,500 bail and is now a wanderer on a GPS leash.
Trading hot wheels on Facebook Marketplace using aliases, these two allegedly swiped sixteen cars, models unnamed but steep in luxury—Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Bristol, Plymouth, and Worcester counties felt the hit. One sunny day in Dorchester unleashed the horror, as surveillance footage showed Lopes and another man skulking from a stolen ride and raining nine shots toward an unsuspecting victim. By sheer luck, the pedestrian dodged death, and a nearby MBTA bus, heavy with fifteen souls, escaped unscathed.
The long arm of the law, stretching from the Massachusetts State Police, Boston's finest, and a host of other state and local agencies, eventually clipped the wings of our high-flying suspects. Aided by the eagle eyes at the National Insurance Crime Bureau and auto auctioneers Copart and International Auto Auction, justice spins its wheels as Assistant Attorney General Gretchen Brodigan and her team gear up for the courtroom showdown.
