Dorchester resident charged with series of car thefts from Boston garages

BOSTON, December 14, 2025 – A Dorchester man is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail after being arraigned in two courts this week for a series of high-end auto thefts from various parking garages in Boston and dragging a police officer who approached him in one of the vehicles, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced today.

ANTHONY CRUMBLEY, 29, was charged in Central BMC Tuesday with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, larceny from a building, numerous counts of larceny of a motor vehicle, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, attaching number plates, malicious destruction of property, assault with a dangerous weapon, and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with property damage.

Judge James Stanton ordered Crumbley held on $5,000 bail and to stay away from all locations of offenses. Crumbley is due back in court January 6 for a pre-trial hearing.

On Thursday, Crumbley was charged in Dorchester BMC with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, failure to stop for police, reckless operation of motor vehicle, leaving the scene of personal injury, attaching wrong plates, and two counts of leaving the scene of property damage. 

Judge Erika Reis set $5,000 bail and ordered  Crumbley to return to court January 8 for a pre-trial hearing.

On August 25, officers took a walk-in report for an auto theft at the Boston Common Garage at Zero Charles St. The victim reported parking a black Mercedes S-Class sedan in his monthly parking spot on August 19 and leaving his key fob inside the car. Video footage shows the

Mercedes exiting the garage at 1:11 p.m. on August 20 with Florida license plates and a white square sticker on the left rear bumper.

The same day, a second victim reported their gray Toyota RAV-4 stolen from the Atlantic Wharf Garage at 280 Congress Street. A garage attendant produced security footage of the Toyota exiting the garage at 8:39 a.m. that morning. Additional footage showed a black Mercedes sedan with a white square sticker on the left rear bumper parked outside the garage that morning. A man, later identified as Crumbley, is seen exiting the Mercedes, entering the garage, and approaching the Toyota. The Toyota is next seen from a security camera outside of the garage.

On August 26 officers recovered the Toyota, which was parked on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain.

At about 9 a.m. on September 8, a third victim reported that their black Mercedes-Benz C300, which they had parked the day prior, was stolen from the 1 Seaport Lane Boulevard parking garage. An attendant produced security footage showing the Mercedes exiting the garage at 4:59 a.m. that morning.

On September 11, the security manager of the Atlantic Wharf garage alerted police that a person, later identified as Crumbley, who had previously stolen a vehicle, was on site again, driving a black Mercedes-Benz C300 and discarding multiple bags from the car. The security manager also stated that the driver forcibly entered a secure office and took a Samsung tablet. The driver fled the garage in the Mercedes before officers arrived. The discarded items were retrieved and identified as belonging to the Mercedes’s owner.

At around 6:16 pm the same day, an officer located the Mercedes on Woodrow Avenue and approached the vehicle. As the officer placed their hand on the mirror, the operator shifted into reverse and sped up, dragging the officer and causing injury to their hand, forearm, and leg. The vehicle fled onto Blue Hill Avenue, hitting two cars.

At some point between September 26 and October 6, the Mercedes was towed, and the owner was alerted. Upon retrieving the vehicle, the victim found a letter from Manhattan Animal Care Center addressed to Anthony Crumbley.

At around 4:50 pm on September 16 a driver, later identified as Crumbley, arrived at the exit gate of the 125 High Street garage in a gray Range Rover. The parking attendant spoke to Crumbley, who stated he had lost his ticket. While the attendant went into their office to retrieve the vehicle’s information, Crumbley sped up and drove through the gate, exiting the garage and causing damage. The attendant provided officers with a description of the operator of the Range Rover that matched Crumbley, as well as security footage that showed Crumbley entering the garage shortly before the incident.

The owner of the Range Rover confirmed they had parked the vehicle in the garage earlier that morning, and it was subsequently stolen.

On September 19, Boston police located the Range Rover parked in front of 147 Norfolk Street. As officers approached the vehicle, the driver accelerated and fled, driving onto the sidewalk and nearly colliding with police cruisers. Later the same day, around 9:07 p.m., a 911 caller reported a broken-down Range Rover with no registration attached and flashing headlights. Officers spoke to the driver, who identified himself as Anthony Crumbley.  Crumbley told officers the Range Rover belonged to a friend.

Officers could not locate the provided name in the RMV database and concluded with further investigation that the vehicle was the Range Rover stolen from the 125 High Street garage. Crumbley was taken into custody on charges of receiving stolen property.

Further investigation tied Crumbley to the prior vehicle thefts and the September 11 incident where a police officer was dragged and injured.

“This defendant was clearly drawn to high-end automobiles in parking garages and had no hesitation in stealing them or putting officers’ lives in danger when he got caught in them.  Putting all of these events together with the same individual displayed some top-notch detective work,” Hayden said.