Catalytic converter theft is big business in Chicago where most people have to park on the street. A two-man crew can sweep down an entire block in no time at all. What I don’t understand is why no effort is made to nail the middlemen, the scrap dealers. Same thing happens with manhole covers. When someone drives up with a trunk full of manhole covers, the buyer has to know they’re stolen.
The middlemen have cops in their pockets with bribes.
To go trade in all of our aluminum cans in Houston I had to get on the scrap metals database with my TX drivers license. They are protecting against copper thieves off AC units.My husband refuses to put cans in the recycle will not let the city have the cash
Government officials are getting a piece of the action.
T tops off my 83 Hurst olds were driven in the stolen vehicle to parts place in next county and sold.
How sells the roof off the car they are driving?
Replacements were then etched. Then the car was stolen for joy rides.
Back in 2006 or so when copper theft was big, the local sheriff in FL posted deputies at the scrap dealers. I believe they also passed a law requiring ID to sell "stuff" to a scrap dealer.