The Tinder car heist — and the plot for revenge
watching the three thieves take off in his Jaguar, Mike started walking through the rain, still dismayed at what had just happened to him. It was coming up on 3 in the morning, and he was all alone in a neighborhood the cops would later describe to him as “Methville.”
Despite the cops’ initial skepticism, they drove Mike around and eventually found the scene of the crime. At the police station, Mike met with another set of patrol officers. They, too, were dubious of his story but told him that a detective would be put on the case. Mike’s cousin picked him up at the station and brought him home. It was now past 6AM.
“I’ve heard of [Tinder scams] going on before, but this is the first one I’ve directly investigated,” Neece told me. “I think a lot of people that have had this happen to them on Tinder probably don’t report it because they’re embarrassed.” Later that evening, just after 9:30PM, Mike received an Instagram DM from someone he didn’t know: Chase Chenea. “Call me it’s about your car!!!” he wrote. Mike was spooked. “I’m thinking this guy is related to the girl, and he wants me dead for trying to get her locked up,” he said. “I think it’s another setup.
Chase told Mike that he was a former criminal but had become an informant for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office . Now, Chase explained, he helped retrieve stolen cars and other merchandise from the Oregon underworld — even asserting, somewhat remarkably, to have helped locate over 70 boosted rides for desperate citizens.an informant for us,” said PCSO lieutenant Dustin Newman, adding that Mike’s case was the first time PCSO worked with Chase. “We didn’t know this guy from Adam until he called us.
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