He Had Both Escalade Keys at Home When It Vanished. Deputies Say Thieves Used a Computer to Make a Third
A Kendall Escalade owner woke up to an empty driveway and both keys still in the house. Miami-Dade deputies say…
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Houston Police Say a Theft Ring Had $3 Million in Luxury Cars Delivered to It. Some Turned Up in New Jersey Labeled as Rebar
Houston police say a ring rerouted luxury cars already on car carriers, then shipped some out of New Jersey in…
Cartels Love U.S. Rental Trucks for One Reason: The Theft Paperwork Is Slower Than the Drive to Mexico
Cartels rent pickups and SUVs in the U.S. and drive them into Mexico while theft-reporting rules run days behind. California…
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…
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…
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.…
Car Thefts Are Down in All 50 States This Year. Chicago Apparently Didn’t Get the Memo.
There’s a rare kind of crime statistic: one where every column points the same way....
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…
One Stolen-Car Stop, Two Las Vegas Police Investigations: One for the Officer’s Gun, One for the Car
LVMPD says the only shot fired during a Sept. 25 stolen-car stop was an officer's negligent discharge. Its deadly-force team…
A Stolen BMW Chase Ended on Its Roof in Tombstone. Then the Case Kept Leading to the Circle K
A stolen BMW X5 rolled twice in Tombstone, Arizona. The driver was arrested beside the Circle K, and so was…
Illinois Motorcycle Pursuit Started Next to a Gas Station and Ended About a Minute Later on an Empty Tank
A Peoria County dashcam video opens on a gas station. About a minute later, deputies say, the stolen motorcycle they…
An Oklahoma Sheriff Found a Stolen ATV. Then He Got a Judge to Sign It Over to His Office.
A stolen ATV turned up in Grady County, Oklahoma. The sheriff's office had it titled to itself and spent money…
Watch: Allegedly Stolen Mercedes Flies Into an Ashtonfield Front Yard, Then a 14-Year-Old Gets Bail Days After NSW Extended Its Youth Bail Law
Police say a Mercedes stolen an hour earlier went airborne on South Seas Drive in Ashtonfield, NSW. A 14-year-old was…