PHOENIX (AP) — It’s a specific crime trend sweeping the nation and starts right underneath your car, and the surge is evident in the Phoenix area over the last two years. Thieves are targeting catalytic converters, your exhaust emission control …
The number of carjackings has exploded in major US cities in the past two years, along with a less astonishing increase in car thefts overall, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. NICB President and Chief Executive Officer David J. …
Smaller communities in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley have seen an unusual rash of catalytic converter thefts because thieves can scrape out and sell precious metals contained in the parts, police said. Jason Weber, community liaison officer for the Town of Menasha …
Cleveland County sheriff’s deputies say a Rutherford County, N.C., man has died while trying to steal a catalytic converter from a wrecked car. Deputies say 28-year-old Daniel Yount died early Sunday morning. Deputies say Yount and 32-year-old Dawn Bradley had …