It took only a few minutes, late at night, as Harvey Briggs was asleep in his suburban Madison, Wisconsin home. Without a garage, he had a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser parked in his driveway, ...

Oct. 26—GRANITE FALLS — The operator of a local scrap yard was arrested by the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office for violating scrap laws involving catalytic converters. David Dakota Beaver, 29, of ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A new law meant to crack down the sales of stolen catalytic converters is already affecting the community and businesses that buy them. Starting July 1, it is illegal for scrap metal ...

As the value of the precious metals found inside catalytic converters steadily falls, so too is the number of police reports being filed across Canada about the automotive parts being stolen.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The owner of a scrap metal business on Dixie Highway wants to make it harder for people who steal catalytic converters to be able to sell them for scrap. In January alone, ...

VERNON, CA, UNITED STATES, December 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new nationwide catalytic converter study based on 25,000 junk-car purchases across the United ...

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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 ...