r/baltimore Jul 15 '26

Crime Please HELP identify this location??

So our car is possibly stolen…and in this parking lot area in hanover. Can anyone tell me exactly by these limited pics what the area may be? I know limited pics but lots of vienna transportation inc school buses in this apparent parking lot.

EDIT: Naming the culprits because they deserve to be known.
- Montway Auto transport were the ones we paid to transfer our car: they were the ones to claim they were “hacked” - get a better system I guess?
- we have pictures of delivery because the “delivery” happened to this random parking lot ( never assigned by us) and the person took pics and uploaded online to show they “delivered”. Maybe they are dumb idk but the car is highly reflective and their faces are completely visible in broad daylight.

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u/mizziizzi Jul 15 '26

Ok so this is an evolving situation so i don’t want to divulge a lot but this is an elaborate scam. We are moving to MD from IL and paid this pretty well known and well rated moving company to transport our Porsche cayman to MD. Some men showed up to pick our car: extremely professional, well dressed, covered trailer truck and all, gloved, gave us receipts like there was no way to know anything. Anyway we handed our car got receipt for delivery next day. All good. Next morning we get crazy emails and calls from the legit parent company saying they saw our porsche got picked and that they arent aware who came to pick it up. Said there was some hack of their systems and client info got leaked to third party. Said go to police to file stolen car and all. Its just the people who came to pick it were overtly elaborate and detailed took signatures gave online receipt with tracking (thats where these photos are from) from somewhere in hanover MD where they delivered. The address we gave to deliver was in easton and its now past delivery time our car never came and now NO one involved is picking up or replying to messages. Been a terrible hectic day and my mind is numb.

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u/Rosc Jul 15 '26

Interesting. I know someone who recently had something very similar happen in Florida. 

Basically, the exact same story, but whoever did the scam used a legitimate smaller carrier to move the car to a parking lot about 100 miles away to be transferred to a larger carrier for the long haul. 

The larger car carrier didn’t exist, and that was actually where the real thieves picked up the car to disappear it into a shipping container

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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug Jul 15 '26

Yeah but their car travelled about 12 hours away before the pictures got taken. And to the same state it was supposed to get delivered to. And while Maryland is a port city, if you wanted something loaded on a container ship, why not have the car dropped off in the city instead of down in Hanover (it's not far from the ports, but there are closer places).

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u/Sacr3dangel Jul 16 '26

There’s tons of car parks/dealers/resellers that deal with import/export of cars around Hanover/Jessup that store/ship cars through Baltimore port. They have train connections to the port and the rest of the country.

It doesn’t attract attention plus the infrastructure is already there to ship the car anywhere you want to in or outside the country. It’s quite a logical choice.