After reaching a record-breaking number of catalytic converter thefts just two years ago, a new reports shows drivers may be ...

According to State Farm, catalytic converter theft claims peaked in 2022, as the company recorded approximately 45,000 claims ...

The catalytic converter is located upstream of the muffler, close to the engine, and it changes environmentally damaging pollutants in the exhaust stream into more benign gases. Under extreme heat ...

(WFSB) - During the pandemic, catalytic converters were being stolen in record ... It jacked up the prices higher than we have ever seen,” said Genovese. Plus, the Feds have made lots of arrests.

But in 2023, new legislation in Minnesota made it illegal to possess a detached catalytic converter that doesn't contain the VIN of the matching car. The law also requires scrap metal dealers to enter ...

Catalytic converters contain metals such as platinum and rhodium which fetch high prices on the black market. When values of these metals go up it usually leads to a spate of thefts, the RAC and ...

A North Carolina man pled guilty to his participation in a multi-state catalytic converter theft ring operated through his business in Emporia. Theodore Nicholas Papouloglou, 45, aa scrap metal ...

The owner of the only platinum and palladium mines in the U.S. plans to lay off hundreds of employees in Montana due to declining prices for palladium, which is used in catalytic converters NYE ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Nearly 200 Staten Islanders made their way to Father Capodanno Boulevard last Friday afternoon to ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office is holding a free catalytic converter etching event ...

and must not pay cash for scrap metal. Those selling stolen catalytic converters may: Want to be paid in cash and make no record of the transaction. Refuse to provide proof of identity. Refuse to ...