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Organized retail crime (ORC) refers to professional criminal enterprises ranging from regional gangs to international crime rings and other organized crime focussing on retail environments. Operations include truckjacking , shoplifting , smash and grab , cargo theft , and cargo diversion.
Six men working as part of a criminal organization in Michigan have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million, authorities said Thursday. The men ...
A car with one of its windows broken. Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up from 724,872 in 2019. [1]
VIN cloning or car cloning is a practice of using a vehicle identification number (VIN) from a legally registered car to hide the identity of a stolen or salvaged vehicle. [1] The procedure involves replacing the serial plate of a stolen or salvage repaired vehicle with a plate containing the number of a validly registered vehicle of similar ...
In 2023, 1,020,729 vehicles were stolen, compared to 1,008,756 in 2022 and 794,019 in 2019, according to the NICB. That’s an increase of 28.5 percent in just four years. That’s an increase of ...
Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said more than 21,000 vehicles were stolen in Michigan in 2021 and more than 25,000 were taken in 2022. He estimated that 85%-90% of vehicles stolen, if ...
A 1999 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice estimated that parts marking reduced the rate of professional car theft (with "between 33 and 158 fewer cars" being "stolen by professional thieves per 100,000 cars that were marked between 1987 and 1995"), inhibiting chop-shop operations.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau released a new report this summer that revealed the top 10 most stolen car models nationwide and in each U.S. state last year.. According to the report, vehicle ...