KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In 12 years, Michael Trent has worked on thousands of cars, fixing their transmissions.
But never has the Kansas City business owner seen anything like what he discovered early Tuesday morning— the back left door of his daughter’s car was missing.
“I have never seen anybody take a door,” Trent told 41 Action News. “It just blows me away… I just don’t understand.”
His daughter Mikysha Bates’ gold Pontiac G6 had been parked in his fenced-in lot, off of Troost and 73rd Street.
“I got a text and was like, ‘My car door? How the heck do you do that?” Bates told 41 Action News.
Security cameras from a nearby business captured two men pulling up to the lot around 1:55 a.m. Tuesday.
For thirty minutes, the video shows the men walking back and forth. Eventually walking back to their car, also a Pontiac G6, with Bates’ door.
“They left the CD player, they left everything intact but took my door,” she said. “I just have never heard of anyone stealing a car door before.”
Tom Reich is a special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau. He spoke to 41 Action News’ sister station WMAR in Baltimore about crime like this one back in April.
“This was a made-to-order theft where there is a damaged identical vehicle,” he said, adding these thieves could be fulfilling an order for an unlicensed mechanic or fixing their own car.
Anyone with information about this crime or who recognizes the suspects is asked to call Kansas City Police.
