4 RI men charged in multi-state luxury vehicle theft ring. What’s worth knowing.

PROVIDENCE – Four young Rhode Island men have been indicted in an indictment accusing them of stealing about 120 luxury vehicles worth about $5 million from 12 dealers in other states last year.

The four conspirators, including two Providence men, a Cranston man and a North Providence man, targeted car and motorcycle dealerships in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha said in a news release.

The men took a Porsche, a Mercedes, a BMW, a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, a Land Rover and other vehicles in a plot that was being investigated by the FBI with help from numerous local police departments, federal prosecutors say.

Law enforcement recovered 41 stolen vehicles and 11 dirt bikes, securing most of the vehicles in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, they said.

$96,000 Jeep

Surveillance video obtained by Providence police shows two men who appear to be the two conspirators guarding a vehicle valued at $96,000, prosecutors say.

The crash involving a Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk happened last year in a Providence driveway, prosecutors say.

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They say the Jeep and three other vehicles were taken two days earlier from a dealership in Hempstead, New Hampshire.

Another SUV stolen by the group, a Range Rover, was found in a container in Elizabeth, New Jersey, prosecutors say. The container was heading to Africa.

Motorcycles stolen from North Providence garage

In another case, prosecutors said, conspirators stole 19 premium Husqvarna motorcycles from a dealership in Phillipston, Massachusetts. The release said the motorcycles were found in the garage of the conspirator, who lived in North Providence.

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Prosecutors say the same 28-year-old defendant facilitated the theft of vehicles from a network of associates, including several from Rhode Island residents.

Seven Rhode Island police agencies provided significant assistance to the FBI, according to the release.

Six Massachusetts police organizations, as well as investigators from the Internal Revenue Service and the National Insurance Crime Bureau, also assisted in the investigation, prosecutors say.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: RI men accused of stealing 120 luxury vehicles in multiple states