{"id":1781,"date":"2006-11-16T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/time_was_wed_take_your_car_to_a_chop_shop_no_longer.html"},"modified":"2006-11-16T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T18:09:47","slug":"time_was_wed_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/time_was_wed_ta.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Was, We&#8217;d Take Your Car To A Chop Shop . . . No Longer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a letdown to realize that the beautiful car you just had stolen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11162006\/news\/regionalnews\/car_crush_scam_busted_regionalnews_philip_messing.htm\">worth more as scrap metal in Asia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The NYPD yesterday capped &#8220;Operation Steal for Steel,&#8221; arresting a dozen car thieves who swiped more than 100 vehicles that were crushed and sold for scrap metal in Asia, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were crushed and sold for their weight,&#8221; said inspector Howard Lawrence, commanding officer of the NYPD Auto Crime Division.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Typically, they&#8217;d be stolen and crushed before the owners knew they were missing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD got wind of the scheme about six months ago and began focusing on a scrap yard in Brooklyn that was an outlet for stolen cars.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Resources, in Canarsie, was buying cars from thieves who used phony Department of Motor Vehicle documents to convince the scrap-yard bosses they were legitimate owners of cars they wanted to junk.<\/p>\n<p>The firm would then pay the thieves $4.50 to $9 per pound for the stolen cars, meaning that a crook could pocket $270 for a 3,000-pound Toyota Camry, Lawrence said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a letdown to realize that the beautiful car you just had stolen is worth more as scrap metal in Asia: The NYPD yesterday capped &#8220;Operation Steal for Steel,&#8221; arresting a dozen car thieves who swiped more than 100 vehicles that were crushed and sold for scrap metal in Asia, authorities said. &#8220;They were crushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}