Alleged thief breaks into adjacent car dealerships via tunnel in caper cops dub ‘The Shawshank Burglary’
It was a groundbreaking tactic.
A West Virginia man dug a tunnel to break into♓ a pair of businesses over the weekend in what local police have dubbed “The Shawshank Burglary.”
Deputie𝓰s from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office responded to a business alarm that went off at Auto Chiefs in Fredericksburg around 10:40 a.m. on Sunday.
They discovered signs of a break-in at the used-car dealership and its next-door rival, Carꩵ Plug — as well as the alleged thie൲f, who identified himself as Jerrylee Adams, the sheriff’s office said.
Adams, 35, told the officers that he was an employee at Auto Chiefs who was there to do drywall work and then planned on buying a vehicle next door. However, both businesses said they had no idea who he was and he was detained 🦄as police investigated further.
Police found that Adams tried to 𒐪break into Auto Chiefs’ front door with a crowbar, but abandoned the attempt after he was unable to get inside.
He then got inside the building through a broken 🐟garage panel, then tunneled his way through the wall in🐭to the adjacent Carplug.
There he snatꦦched keys to a vehicle, a company hat and a company pen he told deputies he ꦺplanned to use to leave a note to business telling them he was just taking the vehicle on a “test drive.”
On his way to retrieve the car, deputies made contact with Adams and found the loot on💖 his person, cops said.
“Unlike Andy Dunfresne, Adam[s] would not be able to escape this,” the sheriff’s office said, referring to Tim Robbins’ character that escaped prison via a tunnel dug over 20 years in the 1994 drama, “The Shawshank Redemption.”
Adams was charged with two counts of statutory burglary, attempted grand larceny, larceny, possession of burglary tools and two counts of destruct☂ion of property.
He is being held in the Rappah🍬annock Regional Jail without bo🥂nd following a “contentious” hearing, police said.
The strange tunnel burglary comes as NYPD clashed with angry Orthodox Jewish students from ওth🦩e Chabad-Lubavitch sect in Brooklyn as officials worked to close a 50-foot-long tunnel.
The young rebels had been working on the tunnel for years underneath the sect’s his𒐪toric world headquarters in Crown Heights to force ๊the establishment into growing the neighboring abandoned space the tunnel led to.
