Cartel Recruits Buy the Damage Waiver, Then Leave the Key. California Lets Rental Fleets Void It, and They Still Eat the Loss
Straw renters recruited online buy the damage waiver and leave the key for a driver headed to Mexico. California lets…
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Watch: A Missing License Plate Turned Into a Chase to Flint. Police Say the Plate Was the Least of That Car’s Problems
A Grand Blanc Township stop for a missing license plate became a felony chase into Flint. Police say the car…
Police Say a Quebec Ring Drove Off With Cars From 22 Dealers Without Stealing Any. It Just Used Other People’s Identities to Finance Them
Quebec police arrested the last suspect in a ring they say used stolen identities to take cars from 22 dealers…
An Unreturned Rental Ram Can Be in Mexico by Dinner. California Takes More Than a Week to Call It Stolen
California law calls an unreturned rental embezzlement, not theft. That label slows the police report and, under a 1981 U.S.-Mexico…
Missouri Gives Tow Yards Your Car’s Title If You Sign. One Tow Boss Skipped the Asking Part and Got 153 Months
Dennis Cleveland used forged owner signatures to get Missouri lien titles on stolen cars. The state’s lien law treats that…
L.A.’s Kia and Hyundai Theft Wave Will Last Until at Least 2042, UCLA Says, and It’s Headed for Poorer Neighborhoods
A UCLA study using LAPD data says immobilizer-free Kias and Hyundais will be stolen in Los Angeles until at least…
Tow Yard Wanted $960 to Hand Back a Petersburg Woman’s Stolen SUV, She Says. A Police Report Made It Free.
A Petersburg, Virginia, woman’s 2008 Volkswagen Tiguan was stolen from in front of her house...
Massachusetts Cop Let Two Stolen Challengers Go at 100+ MPH. One Came Back and Found the Stop Sticks, Police Say.
Auburn, Massachusetts, police say an officer let two stolen Dodge Challengers go at more than 100 mph rather than chase.…
Thieves Took an Arizona Family’s Kia From the Driveway and Ditched It at a Church. A $4.5 Million Fund Could Pay Them Up to $2,250.
A Kia Sorento disappeared overnight from a family’s driveway in the Mountain Vista Ranch neighborhood...
Atlanta Cops Were Hunting a ‘Top 5 Most Wanted’ Car Break-In Suspect. He Was Walking Down the Middle of the Road.
Atlanta police say a 20-year-old on the Auto Crimes Unit's Top 5 Most Wanted list was arrested after officers saw…
Police Say a Stolen Car Hit a Baltimore Cruiser, Rolled Off Driverless and Burned. A New Law Won’t Change Where the Teen’s Case Goes.
Police say a car flagged as stolen hit a Baltimore cruiser, rolled driverless and burned. Maryland's new youth charging law…
Ohio Cops Tracked a Stolen Kia With a GPS Dart. It Still Crashed Into 2 Cars in Dayton.
A Moraine officer tagged a stolen Kia with a StarChase GPS dart and backed off. The Kia crashed into two…
A Stolen $50,000 Chevelle Allegedly Went for $9,500 Cash and No Title. The Buyer Is Charged Too.
A federal indictment says a 1972 Chevelle SS taken from a St. Louis collection was sold for $9,500 cash with…
Customs Officials in Elizabeth, N.J., Report a Record 603 Stolen Vehicles Stopped Before Export, Then Say Most Go Back to Insurers, Not Owners
U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a record 603 stolen vehicles at the ports of...
A Stolen Identity Financed the Corvette. A Second One Wrote the Down Payment Check.
Prosecutors say a Queens man financed a $114,000 Corvette in one stolen name and paid the down payment with a…