A Toronto councillor is calling for action to reduce the number of auto thefts in the city, including the creation of a dedicated police unit and increased information sharing across the region. “Auto theft has reached unprecedented and epidemic levels in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area,” Mike Colle said in a motion set to […]
Could have been prevented with California Immobilizer trailer security equipment The Weld County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado is trying to find out who stole around $200,000 worth of equipment from a location near Johnstown, Colo. earlier this week. According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to an oil and gas site in rural Weld […]
The theft of new, high-end vehicles happens every day. Here is a 2021 news story on the theft of Range Rovers in Canada. Theives are surprisingly cloning keys and simply driving off. This can be prevented with a quick-on, quick-off California Immobilizer wheel lock or wheel boot.
The distressing scenario could have been avoided had the family properly secured their trailer and truck with an immobilizer device. A British Columbia, Canada family was moving from Vancouver Island to their new home in Creston when their truck and cargo trailer was stolen in front of a Grand Forks hotel early Saturday morning, Jan. […]
Elkton, Maryland police say that thieves recently stole several large pieces of construction equipment worth almost $400,000. In all, 20 separate mega pieces were taken from worksites. Operating on tips and sightings in the area, police investigated to see if bulldozers, front end loaders and trailers stolen from storage and construction sites in New Jersey, […]
Erin dos Santos suffered twice: when her 1997 Honda Civic was stolen and when she received the recovery, towing and storage bill for her car. The Riverside, California, resident was charged $245 for the tow and $100 in storage. Santos—and the thousands of other Californians whose vehicles are stolen each year—could have avoided the inconvenience and […]
Spring time means getting boats, campers, trailers and motocycles ready for fun in the warm weather. That is, if it hasn’t been stolen. Unfortunately, many people are discovering that their recreational vehicles are missing from remote storage sheds, parking lots and cottages. Thieves have been hooking up and driven away with hundreds of thousands of […]
Santa Ana police were searching Friday, April 7, for thieves who stole a motor coach and trailer containing expensive and rare car parts worth a combined total of nearly $1 million. According to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna, the thieves made off with the vehicle and parts for McLaren and Porsche sports cars about […]
Merrit, British Columbia Canada police are looking for suspects after $11,000 worth of tools and a trailer were stolen from the Best Western hotel— currently under construction — in the small, interior town. The theft occurred at about 7:45 p.m. on April 1 and was captured on surveillance video at the work site. A white […]
Detectives with Louisiana’s Bossier Parish Sheriff Office are looking for the person who stole an enclosed cargo trailer from a construction company business in early March. According to police reports and surveillance video from around 4:30 a.m. on March 10, someone drove a truck into the Pitts Construction Company parking lot, hooked up a cargo […]