Stolen cars trafficked across U.S. border

Mexican cartels and international smuggling rings target American vehicles for profit or to use in other crimes, CBS News consumer correspondent Ash-har Quraishi reports.

#news #cars #border

[Elizabeth.RMartin]

The flip side is when people steal your identity to get a vehicle. That's what happened to me and people even went as far as to duplicate my ID as a driver's license

[shady]

When I was in Afghanistan on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan we would see hundreds of cars go through on trucks still with US license plates, 80% of them had California Plates, we took bunch of them off and had a wall of plates back on the base, we sent the numbers to the States, every single one of them was Stolen. And 95% of them were Toyota Corolla

[hambone]

The police don’t even look for stolen cars.

[blakeslide]

"If you find your stolen car using GPS, don't try to get it yourself, call the police and let them throw your case on the back burner for a few months, and when your turn does finally come up we can say 'oh well too bad it's gone'"

The cops probably have so many of these cases you are better off getting your car back on your own like the dude who went to Mexico did, F the criminals that think they are untouchable and the Government that aides their escape.

[meejinhuang]

Hide an airtag in the vehicle that's difficult to find so you can track it.

[leonardbrinkman]

This is why license plates from those stolen vehicles are switched out and changed into foreign plates when they arrive in a foreign country. And I do believe that once those foreign plates hit that country or shall I say once the vehicle is in a foreign country the American plates are switched out for foreign license plates. Make it possible for law enforcement to track these cars down! And what is also frightening is the fact that once the car is getting to a foreign country the vehicle identification number is completely defaced. And that tells you right there at the car would be totally untraceable!

[traveltwo]

This is crazy and wild. I remember my car got stolen near my neighborhood in Brooklyn a couple years ago while I went inside a restaurant to grab some food. While inside I felt like something was a little off when I went back outside 10mins later I didn’t see my car I thought I was in a dream like I had to laugh a little before reality set in. Long story short the NYPD found my car a couple days later in upper Manhattan and my car was almost unrecognizable cause the person whole stole literally moved ALL of their house belongings inside of it like they were living inside of it. The car ran out of gas and the person left a note on the windshield. Car got a ticket cause he/she parked it by a bus stop lane. Cops said they arrested the person cause the person came back to the car. Person was mentally ill. Just wild.

[Laspatoadv]

Cars need to have an encrypted deactivation code that the owner can use

[randomrebuilds]

So either the shipping container packer or recipient needs prosecution protocols.

[chrisahn]

Funniest part was when the officer called the X6 an X8! 😂

[weprayforcars]

How to stop this? Close all of the borders with Mexico, Don't let anyone in or out of Mexico.
Don't cut off governmental ties with the government of Mexico, Close the borders to save yourself.

[My-Hunt]

So this is 'Gone in 60 Seconds' in real life. All Cargo containers should be required to be inspected. Period.
Boarders should be like airport security. Check your ID, documents, etc..

[richmerrill]

I work at a dealership and we had a track hawk that was stolen. And then they went 20 minutes down the road and stole a hellcat.

[EvoSGooD]

I’m surprised y’all just finding out 😂. I’m shocked everyone in the US thinks their neighbors are good peeps. Boy if you looked a bit closer you’ll find thief’s, murdered, rapist, drug dealers, traffickers. It’s usually the person you think is straight. Myself I know there’s definitely 2-5 drug dealers around and 1-2 murderers. Keep yourself well prepared every time you walk out that front door.

[albertkkim]

The US has given so much aid to Mexico. How is there so much crime and how are they not any bigger.

[MathiasGreenwalde]

I saw a documentary or tv show where they were over seas and saw a dealership selling nice cars for half their actual price. Almost all of them were reported stolen in the US

[TheBishop]

Idk why we’re still so soft on Mexico, on everything.

[kr]

I’ve seen videos of trailers being off loaded somewhere in Africa with stolen cars from the US that still have NY, NJ, CT and PA plates on them.

[DeepDishPizza]

Hahaha Land Rover is a high end vehicle. Good luck whoever gets one, they don’t last past the first 15k miles.

[tannerpinto]

I remember when my truck was stolen by the tow truck company