Just over a year ago, Texas police watched some strange surveillance footage. A man was pushing a Chevrolet Corvette across a field near Mark Motors in Boerne, Texas. It was an unusual method for moving a luxury sports car.

Officers soon spotted a truck and car hauler trailer on the 100 block of Scenic Loop Road. They conducted a traffic stop and identified the driver as 36-year-old Jose Israel Barrera Jr.

Inside the trailer sat an $89,000 2009 Chevrolet Corvette reported stolen from Mark Motors

The Corvette has a broken windshield. Wet grass on the bumper matched the footage from the field.

Moreover, the trailer had a license plate that didn’t match its registration. The VIN was covered with fresh paint, too.

Police later learned the trailer itself had been stolen from Waco.

When they tried to arrest Barrera, he resisted and attempted to run. Officers caught him shortly after, KENS 5 shared.

A search of Barrera’s truck revealed a Springfield Hellcat handgun, a paintball gun loaded with pink paintballs, large bolt cutters, and a box of black rubber gloves

Barrera also confessed to stealing a $91,900 2011 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 from Jaguar of Boerne between September 9 and 10, 2024.

In July, a slate grey version of the same year ZR1, a 3ZR, sold for $120,000 on Bring a Trailer. It’s the model pictured above.

Barrera told detectives he had used the paintball gun to disable security cameras. He admitted to using an ATV to push the Corvettes off the lots and into the trailer.

He has now been sentenced to four years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.