A slick San Antonio car thief just got sentenced to four years behind bars after allegedly stealing two pricey Corvettes from dealerships in Boerne. Jose Israel Barrera Jr., 36, accepted a plea deal in Kendall County, confessing to stealing the rides and packing heat illegally. On top of doing time, the guy’s got to pay up over 32 grand to repay the dealers – one chunk going to Mark Motors, another to Jaguar of Boerne.
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This whole mess kicked off last September when cops got tipped off about shady business at Mark Motors. Surveillance video caught some joker shoving a car through a field like it was some midnight joyride gone wrong. Officers sniffed out Barrera cruising down Scenic Loop Road with a truck and trailer in tow. He tried playing it cool, claiming he was just hauling a Vette from Midland. But cops weren’t buying it. Inside that trailer? A gray ’09 Corvette, worth nearly 90 grand, looking worse for wear – busted window, grass plastered on the bumper, and a trailer VIN that’d been hastily painted over. Both the car and trailer turned out to be stolen.
Barrera didn’t go quietly. He bolted, scuffled with officers, and eventually got cuffed. A search of his ride turned up a pistol, a paintball gun loaded with pink ammo, bolt cutters, and dark gloves. Later, he revealed something new: he’d also jacked a 2011 Corvette ZR1 from Jaguar of Boerne, using pink paintballs to blind security cameras and an ATV to haul the car.
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Now he’s cooling his heels in a Texas prison, wrapping up a months-long saga of high-end heists gone wrong.
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