2024 Ford F-150 Raptor Pickups Ditched After Getting Stolen From Dearborn Plant

Earlier this year, some bold thieves made off with a handful of Ford F-150 Raptor pickups that were being stored at a lot in Michigan. Ten total pickups went missing, each valued at over $100,000, and though several were recovered, local police indicated that the theft was the work of an organized group. A similar theft event struck just last week when several 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor units were nicked from the Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. They were later found abandoned in a ditch.

A video posted to the city of Dearborn’s Instagram account shows the sorry state of the stolen F-150 Raptors after their would-be thieves ditched them. There’s at least one 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R in the mix, and it didn’t make it very far. Its driver left it parked on an embankment, lilting to the side like a sinking ship, while the others were left where they landed in a ditch, some nosed hard into surrounding trees.

Of course, there’s no way to what happened for sure, but it certainly looks like the misguided thieves attempted to clear the grassy ditch, perhaps under cover of darkness, and simply misjudged its depth and their ability to handle it. The pack might have driven through the ditch at high speed, crashing into trees and stranding the pickups in the process.

Some comments in the post poke fun at the incident, pondering if the drivers knew how to engage the four-wheel-drive in the tough off-road pickups, which should’ve cleared the ditch without breaking a sweat.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. The Ford F-150 line was named as one of the most stolen vehicle of 2023, and apparently, that extends to units parked on FoMoCo-owned storage lots. The Blue Oval had its hands full with a string of thefts from Dearborn last year, and a Ford F-150 Raptor R was ripped off from the same site in late 2022.