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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The skyrocketing value of the precious metals inside catalytic converters has launched a massive black market industry where thieves are cashing in on a ...

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 ...

Thieves have long targeted car stereos, air bags, high-intensity headlights, even pocket change from the ashtrays. But now they are slithering under vehicles and cutting away the catalytic converters.

In the middle of the night, thieves crawl under a row of vans. One by one, they saw off the bulbous metal pollution control devices called catalytic converters. They wrap up in minutes and leave with ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- This Honda sounds as if it doesn't have a muffler -- but what's really missing is a catalytic converter. "So they cut this off," explains Isaac Ngandwe, "they cut this off on both ...

Junk dealers will now have to collect information from catalytic converter sellers, if they weren't already, under an amended Kansas scrap metal law signed Monday by Gov. Laura Kelly. Kelly signed ...