Follow-up: Mysterious Dietrich identified from that bizarre Ferarri crash

Date:August 29, 2007 / year-entry #321
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070829-01/?p=25353
Comments:    7
Summary:Last year, a spectacular crash of a $1 million Ferrari left a lot of questions unanswered. Who were those mysterious men who picked up Eriksson? How did a fully loaded automatic pistol get under the seat of a person who stopped to help? Why exactly does the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority have an anti-terrorism...

Last year, a spectacular crash of a $1 million Ferrari left a lot of questions unanswered. Who were those mysterious men who picked up Eriksson? How did a fully loaded automatic pistol get under the seat of a person who stopped to help? Why exactly does the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority have an anti-terrorism unit? And who is this mysterious Dietrich who was allegedly driving the car when it crashed?

Well, the authorities think they have an answer to that last question. Trevor Karney is in custody on charges of drunken driving, among others. He gave a false address to the police, and while they were trying to track him down, he slipped out of the country, then slipped back in. His story was (get this) that he was a passenger in a Mercedes that was behind the Ferrari, and when it crashed, the driver of the Mercedes stopped, Karney got out, and the Mercedes drove off without him.

Authorities believe that Karney is the mysterious Dietrich, and that he was a passenger in the crashed Ferrari.

(Eriksson was sentenced to 3½ years in prison for embezzlement and drunken-driving.)

Comments (7)
  1. Jason Doucette says:
    August 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    It’s spelled "Ferrari".  The two r’s come first.

    Thanks for the link, Jim.

  2. Tjock Steffe says:
    August 30, 2007 at 12:03 am

    3½ years for crashing a $1 million Ferrari? Totally worth it.

  3. Worf says:
    August 30, 2007 at 1:36 am

    There cannot be a stranger ending to an otherwise interesting device made by the company these guys worked for (Gizmondo, the game platform running Windows CE, not to be confused with Gizmodo, the gadget blog)….

  4. e.thermal says:
    August 30, 2007 at 10:19 am

    3.5 years wasn’t just for crashing the ferrari, apparently this dood is a  lifetime criminal and is facing many charges.  There is a huge wired article on this guy and his past, basically it sums up that he is a gangster from the streets of Finland, who used his criminal ways to live a life of splendor.  Any I highly recommend looking up the article and reading up.

  5. Scott says:
    August 30, 2007 at 11:20 am

    I am shocked that Dietrich exists.

  6. Sitten Spynne says:
    August 31, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html

    That’s the wired article about this whole thing and more for those too lazy to search.  It’s quite interesting and I’m also really surprised Dietrich actually exists.

  7. Jamie Counsell says:
    September 1, 2007 at 1:40 am

    This has a better plot than most of the movies I’ve watched this year.

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