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Investigators: Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise. Can you protect yours?
Investigators: Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise. Can you protect yours? By Miranda Parnell | March 17, 2021 at 12:05 AM EDT - Updated March 17 at 12:05 AM
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - Over the past few weeks, weâve learned about catalytic converter thefts from multiple law enforcement agencies around the Midlands.
âWhat the crooks are doing, theyâre getting up under cars, they make two quick slices and take the catalytic converter with them,â Cpt. Adam Myrick from the Lexington County Sheriffâs Department said.
Officials say in mere moments, a thief could slide under your vehicle steal the catalytic converter, and head over to scrapyard to swap it out for up to about $200.
put out there. unfortunately, there were two fatalities as a result of this collision. we are working with the coroner s office here in lexington county very closely with that. at this time we have transported about 70 patients with various injuries to local area hospitals. one thing that i would like to point out is the extreme cooperation between all of the entities you see here. including the list goes on, including city of columbia, rich land county, fort jackson, sert, all of those have been moving in this operation to assist to make sure all of this is taken care of appropriately. i will go ahead and turn it over to captain adam myrick. and tell you about their agencies involved in this incident. good morning, i m last name myrick. here to tell you a little bit about our role in this response this morning.
that the captain myrick from the sheriff s department let us know they have absolutely secured the area. they have gotten everybody off the train. i can tell you from my experience this week amtrak was very procialg after that crash going up and down double, triple checking to make sure that nobody was left hibsd. ed to these are brand new images just in to fox news of the train collision there in cayse, south carolina. for those of you who may not be familiar with that area it is about five miles from columbia, south carolina. as we have been mentioning throughout the morning that is fortuitous in this kind of a situation because university of south carolina is there. medical facilities. all the levels of trauma center that you would need in a situation like this at the ready because of the proximity to columbia, south carolina. i know i did not know about kazee, south carolina, prior to the last two hours here fortuitous that it is in that general area so close to a major university
tell you about their agency s involvement in this am. captain myrick. here to tell you about our role in this response early this morning. we are on scene making sure that that scene remakes secure. that is really the top focus of our units that are near the crash site, to make sure the scene remains secure. and that means everyone can then work as they need to. the first responders will be safe there and we re working alongside all of the agencies that are here. as mr. cahill mentioned there are a number of them. we are also teaming up with state troopers to control traffic in the area. we ve got some traffic check points not check points, but traffic control points that we are also working, making sure we have the proper access and those who need to access the site can can get there, those who don t quite yet at this point we re keeping those at a location and at a safe distance so we as