Has your area had catalytic converter thieves recently?
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February 20th, 2020
Recently our area is having thieves hit businesses and individuals and cutting off the catalytic converters, and taking them to a re-seller who crosses state lines to cash them in.
I was just curious if anyone here knew of this occurring in their areas.
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I haven’t heard of it happening around here but I have heard that they want the platinum.
About 10 years ago the “motor mile” got hit. Every new car on the lots at like 5 dealerships.
In the last few months it has become a problem where I live. We have some big parking lots at the rapid transit stations, and people have come home after work and found the converters missing.
I heard about it on NextDoor.
Frankly I’m shocked it’s so widespread, even to Canada…wow. Thanks!
I had not heard of this so I did a quick search in NY and saw that they caught someone with stolen goods, a Sawsall and prescription drugs that didn’t belong to him.
I guess the new battery operated Sawzalls, and people willing to ignore the cutting sound, enable this type of crime. It is not common in my area.
Sawzalls are what they used here. None of it turned up in local scrap yards either. I’m assuming this is part of a larger organized crime operation. I bet most went to another country.
@ARE_you_kidding_me Yep, they busted one guy at Menard’s buying up all the blades.
Here, the Sherriff said they’re bringing in box trucks from KC to collect and taking them somewhere else to cash out.
They are hitting big auto marts like O’Reilly’s (based here in Mo) and it’s really turning into a huge problem.
This was a much more flagrant epidemic here around 20 years ago. I think it was the platinum in the things, that made them so damned expensive.
Not in my city but one about 30 miles away they took 20; out a a car dealer lot.
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