WESTPORT — An expensive car — left running outside a local home while the owner went inside — was stolen and later recovered in New York, where two suspects have been arrested.

The incident took place just before 3 p.m. Sunday, police said, when the owner of a 2020 Bentley pulled into his driveway and went inside the house, apparently intending to quickly return to the vehicle, leaving its engine running.

While inside, the owner spotted “unknown suspects” approach the car and steal it. The Bentley was later seen traveling at a high rate of speed, but officers did not pursue it, police said, per state safety policy.

The Bentley, however, was outfitted with a tracking device, which enabled its recovery in Elmhurst, N.Y., by New York City police officers. Two suspects, traveling in another stolen vehicle, were linked to the Bentley’s theft and taken into custody, according to the report.

Westport police investigators, as of Monday, have a “working theory” that the Bentley driver may have been followed by the thieves to his home because of the vehicle’s value, police said.

If true, that would mirror the September 2023 carjacking case involving the owner of an Aston Martin convertible who was tailed to his Bayberry Lane home by three suspects in a stolen BMW and assaulted while they stole his car.

The incident also follows a break-in last Friday at a Compo Beach area home, where police said an intruder was scared off by the resident before anything was stolen.

Police on Monday reiterated the warning they have issued repeatedly over the last several years, urging people not to leave the keys/fobs behind in their vehicles and to lock them routinely.