Ferrari Owner Is Minus His Second Car

Cue the creepy music. It's time for another mysterious episode of The F-Files! This is from the Los Angeles Times:

Stefan Eriksson's famous exotic car collection keeps shrinking.

First, the former European videogame executive's rare Enzo Ferrari was destroyed in a mysterious crash Feb. 21 on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

hen, on Sunday, he lost his 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, valued at more than $400,000. Beverly Hills police confiscated the vehicle after Scotland Yard said the car might have been stolen.

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Police in Beverly Hills stopped Nicole Persson, 33, Sunday afternoon after she was spotted driving this Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren with a European license plate. (Spyder Dobrofsky)

The officers stopped Eriksson's wife, Nicole Persson, 33, about 2:30 p.m. on the corner of Beverly Drive and Wilshire Boulevard because an officer found the car's European license plate suspicious.

The officer then discovered that Persson lacked a driver's license and that the car was not registered in the United States.

"We contacted Scotland Yard and subsequently learned that the car was perhaps stolen" out of the United Kingdom, Lt. Mitch McCann said.

The entire incident was caught on tape by a 13-year-old exotic car buff who has filmed Eriksson's vehicles in the past.

Beverly Hills authorities said they didn't have details of the British police case.

But Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks said that an unidentified financial institution says it owns the Mercedes and that a financial institution in Scotland says it was the owner of the Enzo.

This leaves Eriksson with only one of the three exotic cars he imported to the United States late last year, Brooks said.

"He brought in through San Diego two Ferraris and the Mercedes and said they were show cars and that he was not going to drive them on the streets," Brooks said.

Last month's crash prompted both an accident investigation and a probe by the Sheriff's Department's Homeland Security Division.

Although no one was injured in the crash, the investigation has generated significant attention because of the strange circumstances and the fact that it destroyed one of only 400 Enzo Ferraris ever built.

DRIVER: Persson is the wife of Stefan Eriksson, a former European videogame executive whose Ferrari was totaled last month. (Paul Bogosian)

Oh NO! Eriksson has lost not only his Enzo Ferarri, but also his 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren? And the thief who stole his Mercedes was his wife? Are we sure that the Nicole Persson who was driving that Mercedes in Beverly Hills, is really Eriksson's wife, and not a space alien / human hybrid? Perhaps the real Nicole Persson and her Mercedes was taken by the space aliens, and replaced by this Nicole-clone. If that's the case, then Eriksson is telling the truth--his Mercedes was stolen! It's just that the Mercedes was stolen by the space aliens.

But the mystery deepens. Continuing on:

According to Car & Driver magazine, the Mercedes SLR McLaren is capable to going 200 mph and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.

The car didn't just capture the eye of Beverly Hills police.

Spyder Dobrofsky, a 13-year-old car enthusiast, happened to be at the scene of Sunday's traffic stop and switched on his camera.

The teenager has photographed cars in Eriksson's collection before and knew immediately that the McLaren was his.

"The car really stands out because of the British plate," Spyder said.

Spyder said Eriksson's wife was with a young child when she was pulled over.

On the tape, Spyder asks the tow truck operator called to remove the Mercedes where he's taking it.

The man jokes: "To my house."

So when the Beverly Hills police pulled the Nicole Persson / space alien hybrid, in Eriksson's stolen Mercedes, Persson was also with a young child? Who is this young child? Could this be "The Star Child," of 2001: A Space Odyssey? If so, then The Star Child is a little late getting here, now that it is 2006. Of course, we know that the space aliens could be having some transportation problems, considering that they may be using the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority to transport disabled members from their homes, to the grocery stores, and back again. And now the space aliens could have more problems, since their Mercedes has been impounded by the police, Nicole Persson / space alien hybrid has been taken into police custody, and The Star Child could have been placed into foster care by the state!

Tune in for the next exciting episode!