KEY POINTS

  • A parking attendant stole celebrity physician Mikhail Varshavski's black 2021 Lamborghini Urus on May 7
  • He took the car on a joyride "all over New York City" for around five hours before returning it to the garage
  • No arrests have been made in connection to the incident

A New York parking garage employee stole a luxury SUV and took the vehicle on a joyride around the city for hours before finally returning it, according to reports.

The unnamed attendant took celebrity physician Mikhail Varshavski's black 2021 Lamborghini Urus, which was parked at the doctor's Hudson Yards building, at around 1 a.m. on May 7 without permission, the New York Post reported, citing police paperwork.

He then drove Varshavski's $320,000 car bearing the vanity plate DRM1KE away from the garage, a video reviewed by security showed.

The garage only discovered the car theft when other people went to pick up their cars in the morning and found that the attendant was nowhere to be found, an unnamed source with knowledge of the incident told the outlet.

"The reason that they caught him was because other people came to get their cars and there was no one there. So security had to go through the footage to find out where he went, and then they waited for him to return a few hours later," the source was quoted as saying.

Security staff at the building later notified Varshavski, who is also known as Dr. Mike, of the garage employee's "gross deviation of his duties," according to authorities.

The attendant reportedly returned the stolen vehicle at 5 or 6 a.m., around five hours after he stole it.

Authorities ran license plate checks and discovered that the attendant had traveled "all over New York City," lighting up readers in Staten Island, Williamsburg Bridge and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the source claimed.

No arrests have been made in the case, a spokeswoman for the New York City Police Department said Tuesday.

When reached by phone Tuesday about the incident, Varshavski said, "No comment."

The doctor, who has nearly 14 million followers across Instagram and YouTube and was named People Magazine's Sexiest Doctor Alive of 2015, currently works in family medicine at Atlantic Health System's Overlook Medical Center.

He once saved a passenger on a commercial flight, competed on the television game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” back in 2016 and recently won a charity amateur boxing match in Tampa, Florida's Yuengling Center, raising over $100,000 for Ukraine.

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Representation. An unnamed parking garage attendant took celebrity physician Mikhail Varshavski's Lamborghini on a joyride "all over New York City," according to reports. wiggijo/Pixabay