A multimillion-dollar crime ring in Philadelphia tied to catalytic converter thefts has been busted. The eleven-person theft ring was buying 175 converters a week. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports.
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Great news, put all them criminals in jail. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
In a short period of time in South Jersey, they were stolen from vans of 2 church food pantries where I volunteer and, in a single swoop, ALL of the vans in the parking lot of Food Bank of South Jersey (just 3 incidents of which I am aware). This deprived thousands of food-insecure people of much-needed food. These thieves have no shame.
Usual suspect they all look alike
these people messing with peoples vehicles should get double sentences.
I though of getting one of those shields to protect the converter on my truck which would cost about $400 installed. However, the comprehensive coverage deductible on the vehicle is $100 if the converter is stolen so I left it alone. Simple economics.
I wonder how many of these catalytic converter thieves have current or past affiliation with NASCAR? And is it taboo to make such a potential connection?
NBC covering the big stories.
Diversity not a strength
Usual suspects
This has been going on all over the country for many years without being hindered. What has taken so long?
Start prosecuting the people buying them make it illegal to sell
Maybe we could remove these criminals’ legs off.
One car that drives without a catalytic converter equals the pollution output of 100 car with one.
A tow company owner… somehow that doesn't surprise me.
putting identifying marks on catalytic converters is a short term solution. Ultimately the value is not the steel casing. It's the ceramic honeycomb contained inside. There is no way to mark the honeycomb with an id number. In fact if can be extracted and ground up and probably sold by weight for processing. this type of crime is likely to morph into people selling the ground up honeycomb by the pound.
This is a unique problem that lawmakers think will go away in ten years when electric cars start becoming the norm. we should be preparing for lithium battery theft and not trying to mitigate this. The most profitable source of lithium is in those batteries. It's way more profitable than getting it out of the ground. the only reason this hasn't started is that lithium catches fire when exposed to air.
I heard the thieves tried to use getaway cars when they were caught but…well you know.