GREENSBORO, N.C. — A video showed the moment when a Greensboro man had his car stolen.
Someone walks up to the car, gets in without a problem, then drives off. It all happened at the victim's job.
Now, a man is stuck without his car.
Holden Ferdenzi said he did something most of us do every day. Pull up to work. Park your car. Lock it and go inside.
Ferdenzi said he thought it was a bad April Fool’s joke, but now he just wants his car back.
"You kind of feel like just violated,” he said.
April 1st Ferdenzi said he went to work, parked his car, and locked it. About an hour after clocking in, he couldn't find his 2018 Kia Sportage.
“I was on the way to run an errand for work when I got outside. I looked to where I was parked and hit the button. I thought the staff had pranked me and moved my car as a joke. So, I pulled the footage up on my phone,” he continued.
Surveillance video shows Ferdenzi's car parked to the far right. Minutes later, a black car parks next to it, and someone exits the back seat. Next, the passenger casually enters the driver’s seat of Ferdenzi's car.
“They knew what they were going for, and my vehicle was the target,” Ferdenzi said.
Moments later, the thief drives away with Ferdenzi's car, and the black vehicle trails it. He said his Kia is full of memories of his growing family. He and his wife have a toddler and just welcomed a newborn.
“Every single road trip, everything family-related. Both my kids were born essentially into that car. We drove them home from the hospital in it,” Ferdenzi said.
Now Ferdenzi wants his Kia returned. He left $1,000 and a few valuables in his car.
He is stuck paying for it all since he doesn't have comprehensive insurance.
“I’m hoping that every day when I wake up, I have a missed call that they found it, and there's no damage. I am assuming that all the valuables in it are gone, but the best-case scenario is that we find it,” Ferdenzi said.
Police couldn't share anything about a possible suspect. They just confirmed the theft happened, and they are investigating.
Greensboro police reported about 130 car thefts last month.
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