Catalytic converter thefts more than triple in Harris County
In Harris County, thefts of catalytic converters have tripled recently.
HOUSTON - Thefts of catalytic converters have more than tripled in Harris County and Houston.
A local auto body shop tells FOX 26, thieves can get up to $250 from the metals they steal from inside the converter. But it cost the car owners upwards of $4- $5,000 dollars to fix. When she went out in the afternoon it didn’t sound right, said Bobbie Pfleger of Spring. I ask my husband to swing by their he thought maybe someone was playing a prank, so he checked the muffler. He looked underneath the vehicle and saw that the converters were gone.
Thieves target high school parking lot to steal catalytic converters
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“It sounded really really bad,” Pfleger recalled. “She was afraid to keep it running.”
Once Pfleger’s husband arrived at the campus they discovered the vehicle’s two catalytic converters had been stolen just one of three converter thefts in the high school parking lot that very same day.
“It looked like it was someone that knew what they were doing,” Pfleger said. “They were trying to do it very quickly and get in and out.”
Catalytic converters have been a target of thieves in the past because of the precious metals it is made of, which can be exchanged for a good price at the scrap yard.