Posted on 09/17/2023 7:59:24 PM PDT by Libloather
Cars with foreign plates have been showing up in Africa in staggering numbers, with the majority hailing from Canada and the United States.
A whopping 80 percent of stolen vehicles in Canada are said to leave the country's ports and most end up in countries like Ghana.
Authorities have also noticed an increase in the number of stolen cars departing the United States for West Africa. An ongoing investigation has seized cars at major shipping ports like New Jersey and Baltimore.
In August, Homeland Security said it had already seized about 300 stolen vehicles at the Port of Newark this year, marking a a 32 percent increase from last year.
Many vehicles are carjacked, a process that is becoming easier with push-to-start technology. Syndicates will retag a stolen car by altering its Vehicle Identification Number, or VIN, a unique serial number.
The international gangs may then obtain a counterfeit Certificate of Title, which serves as the official proof of ownership, to match the new VIN. The cars are then sold to people who will ship them overseas.
Some gangs may use the sale of these vehicles to fuel other crimes like money laundering and the purchase of drugs.
Customs and Border Protection Officer Dean Panzarino showed Eyewitness News how thieves packed cars into shipping containers, padding them with mattresses and tying chains to the wheels to suspend them in midair. Some had been disassembled to be put back together in Africa.
An estimated 10 percent of stolen cars in the United States are believed to end up overseas. HSI agents look at anomalies in trends relating to imports and exports and often conduct random searches.
'No, this is something that I just targeted cold,' Panzarino said when asked if he knew who the smugglers were.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I just love our new-found diversity! Don’t you?!
Just more benefits from Africans in America.
“The international gangs may then obtain a counterfeit Certificate of Title, which serves as the official proof of ownership, to match the new VIN”
These gangs would have to have
insiders at a few DMV’s. Obtaining
a title with just a vin number is
not possible without a lengthy
process involving vin verification
through state police via NCIS.
They also check for vin plate
tampering, right down to the types
of rivets used to attach the tag to
the body. Even the font on the tag
is proprietary.
There are “secret” locations on
the car’s body and frame where the
vin is stamped.
I’ve had a vehicle title issued with
just the vin. It’s a tedious process
that takes close to a year, and only
a bonded title was issued upon
approval. I doubt car thieves have
this long to wait.
Thanks Justin!
Car thieves, like horse thieves, must be hung until dead
Dead thieves can’t steal
When the German based “Red Army Faction” was formed, they robbed banks to fund their operation.
Stealing cars is much less dangerous.
BTW, Antifa has a near identical stated purpose to Red Army Faction and both began in Germany.
Both claimed to be anti fascist but were communists backed by Anti Israel Muslims.
Impossible without government corruption at fairly high levels.
The FBI seemingly takes a hands-off approach on this. Just as they did for decades on the Mafia, and now do for drugs flooding across the southern border.
All part of the plan.
So true. This story could be twenty years old, or even thirty."
From the L.A. Times, a while back:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-26-me-dmv26-story.html
"The wife of Santa Paula’s mayor is the subject of a probe by the California Department of Motor Vehicles into whether she and others conspired to sell driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, court records show."
"Last week, investigators searched the home of Mayor Ray Luna and his wife, Rosemarie Mejia-Luna, who has worked at the DMV office in Santa Paula for 25 years."
Number of stolen cars in Syracuse jumps to record levels, Syracuse Police issue public safety alert
Wonder8ng if skyrocketing car theft rates are an un/intended consequence of Deep State’s push to get Made to Order adopted as the model for new vehicle sales...
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