Federal authorities in multiple states are making arrests in a massive catalytic converter theft ring they allege was a half a billion-dollar criminal enterprise. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian has the details.
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#TopStoryWithTomLlamas #CatalyticConverter #TheftRing
$1000 a piece? Wtf.
This is a problem in Canada as well. When I sold my car to a junk place the first thing they checked before we made the transaction was that the Cadillac converter was still on the car and when he saw it was he called hid boss THAN we did the transaction!!!
Throw the book at these A-holes.
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Not only these people are Thief
Including your nasty government. Stealing slavery workers tax.
Pretty much happens when country becomes soft on crime…
Great work on telling me people why they’re stolen and how to steal them..
They need to inspect all these auto parts dealers and make it a federal crime to steal parts from innocent people and selling car parts in the black market
1:27 His $1.7 million dollar home and other assets of defendants should be forfeited by the government as punishment for the crime and auctioned off. The money used for infrastructure like roads and bridges. They should get extra time for the school bus damage.
If you put it that way they’ve got to be sold
This can be somewhat preventable by having a dog in the yard where it belongs instead of inside your house. 😂
why so surprise, the government allow this to happen
Reason #1027201 to buy EV
the police are working hard when insurance money is on the line, huh.
It’s harder to bribe cops if they’re outside of California
Make them illegal to buy and prosecute everyone who has them
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only when a cop victim is killed do the authorities jump on the band wagon, look at how many crimes committed against us and the cops only act against the victims, which protects the crime wave
At least in California January 1st new law prohibits receipt or sale of converters unless your a licenced scrap yard or auto dealership. Anybody else will be fined thousands.
And that’s why they shipped them to the east coast
They bring crimes …
60,000$ a kilo, not ounce you idiots.
If you have a lower car like a Prius and you hear them doing this, simply quietly walk over and lower the jack. Let your car fall of them and leave them there for law enforcement
Although I am very glad that this happened, can the people that got theirs stolen be made whole!!? These people caused problems and grave financial setbacks!!!!
The ring leaders and scrap business owners should also be charged with murder or accessories to murder for that cops murder.
Supply and demand !! It’s something like the war on drug.
$26,000 an oz. Those who are buying should be taken down and arrested. Stop the madness. DO IT NOW…ASAP!
Someone stole the catalytic converter off of my friends handicap van for his 10 y/o daughter. People are pieces of sh*t.
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Once we had this problem with bronze memorial vases mounted on gravestones here in Texas. The law had to be ratcheted up to prevent scrap dealers from accepting these items. Several in my neighborhood lost catalytic converters over the past 3 weeks. 🤷♂️
Stealing from the departed and desecrating their resting place? That’s scum bag low.
@Alex Shank The local usage of crystal meth drives it. I’ve seen two cemetery open air tabernacles stripped of all their copper wiring. Ceiling fans, too…
Lol I cut mine out already and made a straight pipe 🤣.
Keep stealing and keep busting
Good!
I hate thieves. It’s not right .
How stupid can you be to get a necklace of a catalytic converter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“almost as if there’s a hole in the muffler” you mean BECAUSE your muffler is completely detached
1:27 did he decorate his mansion with Muppet catalytic converters?
This happened to me, although it was my own fault for thinking nothing would happen and leaving my car in a parking lot overnight.
I vote death penalty. These is no place in this world for these kind of people.
Bro, I think that one on the left is mine.
I’m sure our super porous borders don’t have anything to do with this. This couldn’t have anything to do with cartels or the gangs coming in from the south. Of course not.
Mine was stolen in Nashville by a muffler shop….
Why aren’t they after the scrap yards? Somebody is buying all this metal, and they’re trying to catch all the thieves.
When theft reaches the million-dollar+ range, the death penalty seems fair to me…provided we keep updating the amount vis a vis inflation.
So, I wonder if they can put all of those converters back in service again. Somehow identify what cars they go to, sort, and inventory, so when someone needs to replace a stolen converter, they can check the database, and see if one is in stock and get a recovered converter back in service.
Why would they spend money on that long process when there going to sell the converters to a scrap yard when there done with them government wants that money the only reason why they made the bust in first place if they didn’t they wouldn’t even acknowledge it it’s a greed thing
1:23 That’s a hella big house for 1.7 mil looks more like 5 mil or more not including the lot.
Now Joe Biden will scrap the converters and give 10% to the Big Guy.
how many more reasons do we need to go electric, gas prices, stolen catalytic converters poor air quality. also theres gotta be a way to bury the converters so theyre hard to access
mining the preacious metals for the batteries will be far worse for the environment.
Finally, government leadership solves a critical issue in this country. I am switching my vote to blue, now realizing the government is on the job.
Technically, a car can function without a catalytic converter.
Meanwhile back at the Ranch, Africans scattered throughout the United States 🇺🇸 ain’t got no job, and they need some cash. With all the technology Our Creator’s have given to us
Life sentences and close down the scrape yard permanently.
Why won’t anyone name the refinery that bought stolen metals from catalytic converter thefts? Why should the refinery be protected? They had to know that they were receiving stolen goods.
Good! Get all involved 👏
I had some dude come up to me in the parking lot trying to sell some kind of guard he had made for Toyota Tundra catalytic converters, I assumed he was just fear mongering. Guess he was on to something
I think he just had alot of cars
Well welcome to the new inflation yet you all voted for 🤷🤷🤷
Sure I have an AR sure I have a handgun but I carry a very sharp hatchet for if I see any legs dangling out from underneath my Lexus off they come then I’ll ask questions I don’t give a s*** how old you are either
They’ll be back on the streets tomorrow…thank a Democrap.
These rip off guys think they are smart but they are dumber than a box of rocks. Going vehicle to vehicle to collect the converters is ridiculous when you can get the contents of the converters all in one spot in 55 gallon drums ready to process.
Scrap yards hire the theives.
If they steal my converter I’m going to replace it with a piece of straight exhaust pipe. Costs about 10 bucks. No more worries. Illegal? Who cares. If the police can’t stop these Cat Maggots then I can.
SIMPLE,,, NO MORE CATALYTIC CONVERTER SCRAP METAL SALES
Ok, So is mine in there? You took it from a 22 year old car. 700$ car, with a 2100$ repair???? I’d skin you alive, so jail is good for you.
Company’s are now making the converters out of ceramic to keep people from taking them.
😳😤
No mercy for these people.
sounds like an advertisement to recruit more criminals to do this. I’m pretty sure the thief doesn’t get $1000 for a stolen converter, that’s more like the replacement cost to legitimately buy a new one.
same with drug busts, they overstate the value, making getting into crime sound more attractive.
Guy will get probation
i know of two people that I have to live with.
I hope his 1.7 million dolllar home goes on the market including all his possessions so it can go to reimburse those insurance claims for stolen Converters. That’s the least this guy and all the other offenders can do to repay for part of their crimes. Not only is this is criminal offense but this is also an environmental crime because they are used to prevent harmful emissions.
They just stole one of my neighbors truck…
The bit at the end about how to tell if your catalytic converter was stolen is almost comical. You’d have to be deaf to not know immediately that your catalytic converter or converters were stolen. Not to mention the car would likely throw a check engine light as soon as it runs for 20 seconds or less.
destroy them ! wiil go over
Is it me or is the common sense gone these thieves have 2 million dollar homes and yet they need to steal, Now this is greed when you steal more than you need. Appetite of a thief is never satisfied
Good Job!
I am the victim. My car was stolen the catalytic converter ( toyota prius 2013) 4 months ago.. definitely there is one of mine in there so how do I get it back?
ITS SIMPLE, VOTE REPUBLICAN IF YOU HATE CRIMINALS LIKE THIS. VOTE DEMOCRAT IF YOU SUPPORT THESE CRIMINALS.
If they powers that be wanted to stop this crime they would make it an automatic life sentence or death penalty for anyone involved in stealing, selling or storing stolen catalytic converters.
Yes but they profit off selling the converters themselves only reason they made this bust
“…They will face decades in prison…” BS!!! That’s the problem!! They will be out of jail shortly only to commit the same crimes over and over. Rinse and repeat!!
I was working at the Tulsa State Fair over 10 yrs ago…they hit the parking lot on a Saturday night…over 100 vehicles got there catalytic converters cut out…this has been going on for so long now…
People get sentenced, “decades”, for theft but less for murder!!!!??????
I didn’t have insurance for this and it cost me $1,300 for a $3,000 car. they don’t want to do anything about this because they want everybody to have electric vehicles. Wishing everybody to be millionaires is not a real thing. when are they going to start talking about returning some of the stolen property to the rightful owners?. No, they get to keep that s*** for themselves. It took them son of a b**** is 2 minutes to ruin my life. I want my money back or I want to see somebody in prison. What about the people who received the stolen goods? They can’t plead oh I didn’t know. Put them in prison too. But you won’t do nothing because you want everybody to have electric f****** vehicles. Traders. Millions of dollars and you got 21 people? it cost us millions of dollars just to arrest 21 people that you’re going to let go tomorrow. How come there already gone out the system. Traders
Hmmm New Jersey you say who owns a scrap business in New Jersey oh that’s right the mob won’t say name but it starts with gam
Stealing of catalytic converters (that converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and water through very hot temperatures) will continue because it is a lucrative market. However, in the near future, this is what is to happen, not to just catalytic converter thieves, but to everyone who is a wicked person by God’s standards: “For evil men will be done away with, but those hoping in Jehovah (God’s name, see Isa 12:2, KJV) will possess the (clean) earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, and they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, and they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace…….forever.”(Ps 37:9-11,29)
When a person prays “the Lord’s Prayer” at Matthew 6, they are asking for Jehovah God to do just that, for a heavenly government called God’s Kingdom to remove every single person who does not measure up to being a “meek” person from the earth, in which Jesus said that only a few will get life because only they are able to travel on the “cramped road”, because its requirements are so “tight”.(Matt 7:14)
If only we cared about our tax dollars the same way
Stop valuing them, off market, no longer scrap worthy.
20 years prison.
Happend to my brother
Put a tracing device on ur converter
In the old days a person was hanged for stealing a horse which was vital to life, the same should be done for our vehicles.
I got mine taken in Chicago 2 weeks ago jeep liberty 2006
Great job get those RATS, NOW bigger punishment!
Thanks Democrats! 👍👏
That part is people will never get their catalytic converters or the money back they had to pay to buy new ones. The status sell all those cats in reimburse people as much as possible for what they had to put out for stolen ones as long as you have a police report or something you can get some money back
It’s about time someone started cracking down on the low lives and who knew you can get $1,000 a piece for them
AT THE END THER HAS TO BE A BIG BUYER OF THESE SOILDS WHOS THE TOP GUY.
All fault of the EPA making these thing valuable. These thieves won’t even touch aftermarket catalytic converters.