Jerry O’Connell’s 1979 Cadillac was discovered on the Pacific Coast Highway after a traffic stop revealed that a homeless man had stolen the luxury car, NBC 4 reports.
The outlet reports that this incident occurred on Jan. 13, when police pulled the car over for speeding, but the driver “failed to provide deputies with a driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance.” He also claimed that the car belonged to a family member.
Police then discovered that the car was registered to O’Connell and determined it had been stolen from the actor’s home in Calabasas. However, O’Connell was unaware that the vehicle had been stolen as he and his family were out of town.
Jerry O’Connell Thanks Police In An Instagram Post
In an Instagram post on Friday, Jan. 23, O’Connell humorously addressed this incident while thanking police for recovering his car.
“Just to be clear, I am not the Homeless Man in this @nypost article,” O’Connell began. “Very grateful for @lasd_lhs. All this while Gavin Newsom was at DAVOS. JK. I left my keys in center console. MY BAD. This one is on me. Again, THANK YOU LOST HILLS SHERIFFS!!!”
Jerry O’Connell’s Phone and Wallet Were Stolen Last Year
GettyIn September 2025, a wallet and phone that belonged to O’Connell were stolen while the actor was taking a yoga class in the San Fernando Valley, NBC4 reported.
According to the outlet, a woman came into the studio saying that she was taking a class that had already started. She then asked to use the restroom, which is when she took O’Connell’s belongings. After the class ended, he discovered his phone and wallet, which contained a few hundred dollars in cash, were missing.
The theft was reported, and the Los Angeles Police Department found that it was all caught on the yoga studio’s security cameras.
In an interview with PEOPLE following this incident, O’Connell detailed what happened after he discovered it was missing.
“I told the guy at the desk in a hushed tone since I was still feeling the zen, and if there’s a place where no one is going to freak out it’s a yoga studio,” he said. “We check the feed and we see her…She has pigtails, wearing yoga clothes, carrying a yoga mat and is wearing a yoga arm sleeve.”
O’Connell nicknamed her the “slick yoga bandit.”
“I went to the police station, and it turns out she’d gone to the yoga studio to case it a few times, and to other studios,” he added. “The only real bummer is that I had a photo of Rebecca from high school in my wallet, a four-leaf clover Jack McBrayer had given me, a $2 bill I got while shooting Stand By Me, and my grandfather Charles Witkowski’s obituary.”
