Overview

• Chen canceled a 1,500-yuan flight ticket and spent over 14 hours stealing eight cars across seven cities.
• Authorities estimated the stolen vehicles’ combined value at nearly one million yuan.
• He funded meals and tolls by selling valuables stolen from the cars after abandoning them when they ran out of fuel.
• A Wuhan dealership’s report on June 2 prompted interprovincial alerts that led police to find him asleep in a Hebei parking lot on June 4.
• As a repeat offender, he now faces more than ten years in prison and hefty fines under Chinese auto theft laws.