By Steven Symes 
We’ve seen a lot of creative plans from car thieves, but one involving stashing vehicles in underground tunnels is new. That’s exactly what’s going down in Los Angeles County, but a man has exposed the whole scheme.
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Speaking with Fox 11, the guy who didn’t want to show his face says he works along the Whittier Narrows Dam’s concrete channel, which manages runoff from the San Gabriel River. Off of that channel are tunnels which funnel water to the Rio Hondo.
It’s inside those tunnels the man claims a car theft ring likes to stash stolen vehicles. Not only are they then kept out of sight in an area most dare not enter, all the dirt and concrete blocks signals from GPS trackers.
That means if someone is trying to find their stolen ride, they can’t.
Then the thieves just chop up the cars in the tunnels and cart the parts out. The guy told Fox 11 this happens about once a week.
He also took a reporter to a spot he calls “The Bermuda Triangle” where these thieves barter with stolen goods. It sounds like there’s a whole society that’s subsisting by stealing from regular people in the area.
Recently, there was a police chase involving a suspect in a stolen work truck. That guy drove into the tunnel this witness says is used for stashing stolen rides, losing police who were tracking him on the ground and from a helicopter.
We can’t believe police don’t know about this practice. The guy who’s raising awareness of the problem wants grates installed over the tunnels so people can’t get into them and especially so cars can’t be driven inside.
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