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.
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Africa is the gift that keeps on giving
How many are Kias & Hyundais?
The US autos end up in Mexico.
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This is nothing new.
It has been going on for a long time.
A buddy had one of the first H2 Hummers.
He drove it to Montreal.
It was stolen out of the hotel parking lot.
Six months later he gets a call one morning from INTERPOL.
They had found his Hummer in Cape Town, South Africa based on the VIN# on the engine block.
He went down to the federal building in Boston to give a deposition.
Yes, slave labor was never free.
In King County (Seattle), car thefts were 800 a month. In July and August, each month jumped up to 1,100.
>>>>This is nothing new.<<<<
So true. This story could be twenty years old, or even thirty.
Or even 50 years old!
My Dad had his Dad’s ~’80 Maverick car stolen off the streets of Manhattan quite some decades ago.. The Cops indicated that it probably went to the Docks and was shipped off to South America.
Same old, same old.
Thanks ‘Rats....
Stolen cars has been at massive proportions for some time which is one reason why I’ve been in no hurry to buy a new car. However, when those pictures are looked at, it seems like they aren’t high end at all... some of them in fact don’t just look like they are well and truly used, some look like junkers.
Yep. In Mexico, one had a stolen vehicle, tried to justify it with forged papers. Fortunately the vehicle had Lojack, cops drove right up and that was the end of that episode.
BIDET THUG AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GROIDS
pavement apes
AA pavement apes..the same kind as running the local government.
all ape democrats
stop providing any antibiotics to the worthless scum africanus
I watched an episode of Top Gear where they were in Bulgaria and mentioned all the stolen cars. Even politicians were driving stolen cars.
I bet vvery few are EVs
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