The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As catalytic converter theft continues to rise, many are wondering why? Within minutes, thieves are able to cut them off from vehicles. It is because of a type of three types ...

Thieves have been sawing off catalytic converters from the undersides of cars and selling the precious metals inside them. But there’s another type of catalytic crime going on. Some businesses have ...

US authorities said they arrested 21 individuals in five states for allegedly participating in a national network that stole thousands of catalytic converters from cars and then sold them to ...

The precious metals, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, in catalytic converters make the vehicle devices attractive to thieves, but researchers are working to reduce the amount of precious ...

The National Insurance Crime Bureau is warning consumers about a nationwide spike in thefts of catalytic converters. WHITE HOUSE OMITTED BLAME ON RUSSIA IN PREVIOUS TAP INTO US STRATEGIC PETROLEUM ...

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 ...

PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) - Surveillance cameras caught crooks removing catalytic converters from work trucks parked at a Pembroke Pines business. According to police, the metals inside these ...

Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

SODUS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Troopers are asking the public for help to find a suspect wanted for cutting and removing a catalytic converter and taking scraped metals from a dumpster in Sodus ...