SPRING, Texas — Cliff and Mandy Holverson told KHOU 11 News they live in a quiet Spring neighborhood. They said early Wednesday morning, the peace and quiet was shattered by a stern knock at the around 2:30 a.m.
“That scared us awake. Dog barking, trying to keep the baby asleep and yeah, there’s a constable at the door asking me do I own this 2014 Hyundai, and I’m like yeah I do. do you know where it is? It’s not in the driveway," Cliff Holverson said.
No, it wasn’t in the driveway, just some just shards of glass sat in it’s place.
“He had smashed the window and stolen it, and joyrode the thing for about an hour and 15 minutes,” Holverson explained.
See what the man didn’t know, was the Holversons have a dash cam in the car that starts recording as soon as the car is turned on.
“It shows him driving around this neighborhood, you know going crazy, speeding up and down roads driving with no lights on,” Holverson told KHOU 11 News.
It also showed him hitting a parked car in the area, then a basketball hoop, and a fire hydrant a few times before driving through a park. But the real surprise came near the end of the video.
“He gets out of the car and looks at the front of it to kind of survey his damage, and you can see him there wearing his facemask and a Santa Claus hat,” Halverson said.
At this point investigators are only calling him a person of interest.
“I was like really you're Santa? More like the Grinch,” Mandy Halverson told KHOU 11 News.
The Holversons decided to come forward, because they are urging everyone to buy a dash cam to help protect their vehicles and their families. Luckily their car suffered only minor damage and will be returning home soon.