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…
Denver Prosecutors Say Two Tow Owners Asked Crash Victims for Up to $8,000 and Forged Titles on Stolen Cars — Now 12 Face 187 Counts
The Denver tow truck indictment announced Oct. 8 charges 12 people, all between 23 and...
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…
A Heathrow Parking Firm Promised a Covered Compound. Customers’ Cars Got a Field.
A Heathrow meet-and-greet firm left customers' cars in a field, on roadsides and in the airport's own short-stay lot. The…
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.…
Corvette Driver Hit 147 MPH on A1A the Day He Bought It and Killed a Couple in a Jeep. He’s Getting 47 Years.
A Corvette driver hit 147 mph on A1A in Ormond-by-the-Sea, killed a couple in their Jeep and got 47 years.…
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…
Ukraine Police Say a Breaking Bad-Style Crew Planned to Move Methadone Disguised as Car Fluid. 12 Vehicles Seized.
Ukraine's National Police say a Kyiv-region lab planned to smuggle liquid methadone disguised as car fluid in a vehicle with…
Eight Cars, Including Three Camaros and a Trans Am, Fell Off the Feds’ List in a Texas Insurance Fraud Case
DOJ said in July it had seized 22 vehicles from Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley. The October forfeiture order covers…
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…