Thieves steal a quarter of a million dollars in cars from one Marion County dealership, but owners manage to track most of them down with the help of OnStar. Kimball Police say it's one for the books. The police department has dealt with at least two of these before in the past, but nothing this major, says Sergeant Chris Webb.It all started on New Years Eve when thieves broke into the Gentry Chevrolet, Buick, GMC dealership to steal several keys, but it wasn't until two days later that thieves came back to cash in on their loot. After realizing the vehicles had been stolen, General Manager Tom Thomas called police and his corporate company to activate a special piece of technology. We had three new Camaros and two new trucks and one used truck. OnStar can track the vehicle and communicate with law enforcement and tell them exactly where the vehicle is.Police jumped into action They had started tracking the cars probably 20 minutes after we contacted them. Within an hour we had recovered the first one and they just started falling in place after that, says Sergeant Webb.One of them was caught inside one of the Camaros that was stolen from here, the other one showed up during the investigation, and another one was caught inside another vehicle that was stolen from a dealership in Cleveland. Thomas remains in disbelief. [We] had them all rounded up in a matter of three hours. Started off pretty bad, but ended with a happy ending.The dealership is still hoping to recover one more car that's a 2014 white GMC truck. Along with Christopher Lyn Coffelt, both David Andrew Jones and Brittany M. Trail have been arrested for theft over 60-thousand dollars.by Mikaya Thurmond

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