Charlotte man and dealer who sold him stolen luxury cars are headed to prison
A Charlotte man who sold stolen luxury cars — and another man who bought those stolen cars from him — will both spend the next several years in federal prison.
Prosecutors say 43-year-old Andre Lamar Sumner made a business finding buyers for stolen cars. He knew of at least 31 stolen cars — including Rolls-Royce and Porsche from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Missouri.
Court documents say Sumner would change the cars’ VINs and either keep them for himself or sell them to people like Erren Woodson, his 40-year-old co-defendant.
Woodson knew the cars were stolen when he bought them from Sumner, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. When investigators searched both men’s homes in 2023, they found four stolen cars at Sumner’s house and six stolen cars tied to Woodson.
Both men sold drugs to fund their fraudulent transactions, prosecutors said. Sumner had 71 pounds of marijuana and two pounds of psychedelic mushrooms when officers searched his home, and Woodson had 86 pounds of marijuana and more than seven pounds of mushrooms.
Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, possession of a stolen vehicle and possession with intent to distribute large amounts of marijuana.
For those charges, Sumner will spend nearly six years in prison, and Woodson will spend more than four.
