A deputy with a hunch helped build a case toward finding one of many suspected perpetrators in the widespread theft of catalytic converters.
Thefts of these items are a continuous problem across Colorado and police are trying to crackdown.“ just found a vehicle at the hotel that was suspicious to me,” he said. “It stood out. Looked into it, there were saw blades, bolt cutters, a license plate to a different vehicle sitting on the floor… Kind of one of those things that is a clue to us.
At the hotel, the driver of the car, Austin Brumfield of Wyoming, 29, was arrested and a search warrant was approved.Even upon the find, a local shop quoted it would be nearly $3,600 each to get them repaired and reinstalled. The sheriff’s office says some local scrap yards are paying top dollar for the stolen goods, saying sometimes when they try to contact the shops, they speed away, often in stolen cars.
The incidence of finding the converters and the cars they match up to makes it hard to pinpoint each source of steal, officials say. Therefore, the incidence of this crime hasn’t decreased, he stated. “When they pulled the vehicle out to search it, they pulled four catalytic converters from the trunk of the car,” he said. “They chop them off and within 48 hours they are at a scrap yard selling them. To find it, arrest somebody and get property back all in one case is pretty good to see.”
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