You probably think of your car’s catalytic converter as a forgettable chunk of metal under the chassis. Federal prosecutors say Tou Sue Vang saw it as a gold mine, orchestrating a pipeline of stolen ...

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A scrap metal dealer with a Virginia shop pled guilty this week to theft and tax charges related to his participation in a multi-state catalytic converter theft conspiracy. According to court ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three people pleaded guilty Monday for their role in a US catalytic-converter theft ring. Prosecutors say the operation shipped ...

Police data recorded a 36 percent rise in catalytic converter theft offences in one force area between 2024 and 2025, with ...

In one of his last official acts in office, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday signed a bill designed to curb the theft of catalytic converters by regulating the purchase of the automobile ...

In 2022, thefts nationwide were 540% higher than all of 2020, public data company BeenVerified found. Thieves are slipping under cars to swipe catalytic converters, those pollution-control gadgets ...

Bill 9, the Scrap Metal Act, and its corresponding Scrap Metal Regulation have gone into effect in Manitoba as part of the government’s plan to address the problem of scrap metal theft in the province ...

Law enforcement agencies across Minnesota say they are ready to tap into a new resource meant to help victims of stolen cars and stolen car parts — a centralized database that records sales at scrap ...