A Rental Car Theft Ring Shipped Stolen SUVs to Ghana for a Year. The Weak Link Wasn’t the Car.
Amadou Diol just got five years in federal prison for stealing more than 20 rental...
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This Crew Stole Two Dozen Muscle Cars Each for Street Takeover Clout. The Law That Caught Them Predates the Muscle Car Itself.
Nigel Criss and Rafael Otero Nieves weren’t sentenced to federal prison this month because they...
A Stolen Ford Explorer Beat Ontario’s Anti-Theft Tech. A Fast-Food Receipt Still Busted the Teen Inside
A 16-year-old in Hamilton, Ontario didn’t get caught because police cracked his stolen Ford Explorer’s...
Honda CR-Vs Are Getting Gutted in 20 Minutes Flat, and the Real Culprit Is Bolted Under the Dash
This isn’t really a story about stolen Honda CR-Vs. It’s a story about a thirty-year-old...
How a Charlotte Crew Stole 100 Luxury Cars Using Nothing but Key Fobs
Five people are now serving federal time for a car theft operation that ran from...
He Allegedly Stole and Torched a Chevy Suburban. His Loyalty Card Turned Him In First.
Phoenix police say a 31-year-old man stole a Chevrolet Suburban from behind a Safeway, drove...
Your Dealer’s ‘Anti-Theft’ Upsell Turned Out to Be a Skeleton Key for 2.2 Million Cars
Somewhere in Southern California, a Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Ford, or Jeep dealership sold you a...
Melbourne Busted a License Plate Knockoff Factory. America’s Toll Cameras Have the Same Blind Spot
A Melbourne crackdown netted 79 arrests and a guy who allegedly mass-produced 875 sets of cloned plates. The real story…
Ford’s New Remote Kill Switch Isn’t Really About Stopping Car Thieves. It’s About Owning The Off Switch.
Ford wants you picturing a thief. Someone jimmies open your F-150, leaves your own key...
A Thief Couldn’t Start This Stolen Porsche, So He Dragged It Down the Street Like a Shopping Cart
Nobody was driving the Porsche that tore up Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood last Thursday...
Advance Auto Parts Let a Clerk Play Detective. Now a Wrongly Accused Mom Wants $15 Million
Nobody at Advance Auto Parts hired anyone to run a police lineup. But that is...
These Salesmen Beat 176 Stolen-Car Charges in Court. A Paperwork Loophole Still Destroyed Their Careers
Two car salesmen just got cleared of 176 criminal charges apiece for selling stolen vehicles,...
A $105K Corvette Blew Up a $1.3 Million Supercar Theft Ring. The Getaway Kit Cost Almost Nothing
Two men are sitting in a Ventura County jail cell on $250,000 bail apiece, accused...
Stolen 2013 Honda Accord Pursuit Ends at a Visalia Orchard Fence
Here’s a tidy little Central Valley crime story that doubles as a lesson in why...
Chicago Carjackers Tried to Sell Stolen Car Back to Its Owner
There’s a particular breed of criminal decision-making on display in Humboldt Park, and it belongs...