Thieves steal 34 catalytic converters at 2 Chester car dealerships
Chesterfield County police are investigating the thefts of 34 catalytic converters that were cut from new vehicles at two Chester car dealerships. The loss was estimated at $80,000.
The converters were taken sometime between 9 p.m. last Saturday, Oct. 17, and 9 a.m. Monday from Colonial Honda at 2100 Walthall Center Drive and Priority Honda at 2000 Walthall Center Drive. The vehicles hit included new Honda Pilots, Honda Elements, Honda Ridgelines, Toyota Tundras and RAV4s.
The same two dealerships were targeted in September 2008 when thieves removed 42 converters from 21 Toyota Tundra trucks, each of which has two converters, and six from Honda Pilots. The thieves used battery-powered reciprocating saws to cut them from the vehicles. That loss was placed at $90,000.
The converters are valued for their precious metals, including platinum, which is lucrative on the black market. The price of platinum closed yesterday at $1,359 an ounce.
Depending on the make and model of the vehicle, converters can fetch anywhere from $50 to $350 from salvage yards and recycling centers. The emission-control devices contain between 3 and 7 grams of platinum.
Contact Mark Bowes at (804) 649-6450 or
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$80,000 in damage to brand new cars, done by cretins who are too worthless to get a job and work for a living. It will give me such pleasure to read about them being arrested and charged with not only this incident, but the others they have surely committed. And I have all the confidence in the world that they will be nabbed. Same satisfaction I got from reading about the arrest of that piece of human garbage who was charged with the graffiti vandalism in the city’s parks.
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