Stolen cars trafficked across U.S. border
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2023
- 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.
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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
Toyota Corolla is a very high demand car in Afghanistan and their favourite reliable one.
@@vaishakviswam1970 Toyota Tacoma's so they can fill them up with terrorists.
I just bought a brand new Toyota Corolla 2022 Le 😢
But you didn't do anything you didn't report it it just happned and you did nothing think it's safe to say we didn't need you to serve homie
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
and the person who did it was probably an American
@@geraldarnoultyeah americans living in the US. 🤡
How did it happen
How did they steal it
That's why you use Credit Karma
The police don’t even look for stolen cars.
I SHOULD KNOW BECAUSE I'VE STOLEN SEVERAL ALREADY
And you're wrong. But if you're expecting them to be able to easily find a car in a radius of thousands of miles with limited resources, then please go back to bed cause you're dreaming.
That’s because it’s a huge waste of the police’s time and resources to look for stolen cars. The police are way too busy to have officers tied up for hours or even days looking for stolen cars.
Yes, they do, I've seen gone in 60 seconds.
In Mexico the cops are are probably involved.
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.
That's what you get for leaving your car running or leave the keys behind in NYC
Mentally ill sound like NYC
Literally the same story i have here in San Francisco. I’ve also left it with keys 30seconds in a 5*star hotel gone. The rest of the story is same as yours… crazy. Suspect also put on my clothes from my car and took my id pretend to be me…
You must be mentality ill to leave your car unlocked and running while inside a restaurant.
Crazy and wild shutup
"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.
Not sure what you're salty for. Nobody is going to recommend finding criminals, obviously you take a risk if you want to retrieve your own vehicle back.
really bad idea! Specially if your insurance can cover it!
Ok genius, go into Mexico and try and get your car back from the Cartels...6 feet deep you will be I foresee. .
@@seavee2190 lol cartel can stick to eating refried beans or whatever they do, Ill go get my damn car back
@@FierceZs1 bootlicker
My daughter traveled to Jordan a few years ago and she mentioned that there were cars driving around still with Virginia, New York, Quebec and Ontario license plates on them.
Cars need to have an encrypted deactivation code that the owner can use
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.
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!
Canada has a similar problem. Lexus and Mercedes are stolen and taken to Nigeria still wearing Ontario plates. The thieves do not even bother to remove or hide the plates.
The sad part is. Every single person with insurance coverage on their vehicle, Is paying for other peoples cars being stolen. They raise it $.50 here. They raised five dollars there. So we pay higher rates. And they give you some story it’s your ZIP Code. But all of us lose money over this.
gives you an idea that it benefits insurance companies to have your car stolen. so they create the groups to steal the cars
I work for an insurance broker and have always said this. It doesn't make any sense that rates go up at "more at risk" areas, you are punishing everyone for the mistakes of others. Lately I've seen premiums go up as well for removing cars which was not as common before.
The real sad part is that with all of our technology and the lines of cars waiting at the border……and shipping ports not one single tax dollar goes into a computer system with a license plate scanner to put an end to this.
Fake news
@@maverick4040could be multi car discount being removed
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..
Corruption buddy, i imagine the paycuts big
Keep dreaming.
So either the shipping container packer or recipient needs prosecution protocols.
Hide an airtag in the vehicle that's difficult to find so you can track it.
wouldn’t be very wise to just show up into cartel country across the border, into africa, moldova
how long does thee battery last?
Tell it to the insurance company. That's their problem.
I remember when my truck was stolen by the tow truck company
Hahaha Land Rover is a high end vehicle. Good luck whoever gets one, they don’t last past the first 15k miles.
Silly American 🙄 Once in Africa or Mexico the mechanics down there fix them with Chinese parts that last longer than the garbage from jaguar.
@@xavierd3298 Thank you for letting me know that you know absolutely nothing about cars.
Pos
@@xavierd3298Lev Andropov : [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN....(Armageddon, 1998)
They are by definition a high end vehicle but that doesn't make them reliable
A lot of cars stolen from here end up in either Romania, Albania or Poland. A magazine did some research and went to Albania. In the streets they would see people looking homeless driving around in expensive cars, sometimes even being Bentley and stuff like that. They also found a salvage/impound yard where the Albanian police had confiscated cars. There was everything you could want and it was mostly high-end cars. They found one from our country that still had the plates on, and they found out what insurance company it belonged to. The insurance company told the journalists that the owner had indeed have his car stolen, but it was so long ago that they had already ridden this one off and gave him a new one. It was absolutely wild. There was even a lightly armored (and very heavy) Mercedes AMG in this lot, though not from my country. All kinds of cars with plates from surrounding nordic countries. You could also tell that they weren’t really taken care of because the lot itself was very overgrown and the cars just randomly parked.
You forgot to mention Kosovo! So many stolen cars end up there it's insane. When I visited last year I couldn't believe all the brand new Mercedes and Audis mostly
It's not possible for Romania and Poland anymore, there is an European register for stolen cars. As for Albania, I've never seen a single car from the Nordics everytime I went. You do see some big Mercedes sometimes, but it's mostly swiss plates with Albanians coming back home for the summer. Otherwise, people drive old German cars that are not worth much.
Also in Canada, where the stolen cars end up sold in West African countries like Ghana.
@@twann74bikealbanian born and raised, you've seen nothing respectfully
I see that in the Bronx. A black man in a hoodie drives through da hood in a Mercedes or BMW. Do you think he’s making car payments? Hispanic immigrant changing out license plates in broad daylight. Was there a problem at the DMV? Cars lined up outside of garages, all with the back window broken. High end vehicles lined up and hidden in the back of the garage… yeah, NYC Webster Avenue in the Bronx! It isn’t hard to catch it if you know where to look.
Funniest part was when the officer called the X6 an X8! 😂
Only car people would find that funny
Ik I drilled him when he got home he forgot his glasses 🤣
You know in the kinda dark situation like that sometimes 6 can be 8 in some people eyes , give the old man some slack
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
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.
Yes you know
Don't pack a lunch, pack a strap?
Typical US citizen comment. Disgusting!
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.
Glad they are starting to chase this issue it shouldn't be that easy to get a whole vehicle shipped out little alone 1000s a year
I’ve heard shady wealthy people will actually hand “thieves” their keys and then report them as stolen for a percentage of the cut, and then claim insurance.
Also a lot of US luxury vehicles make it to Russia too because the oligarchy there is still very wealthy despite the war and trade restrictions.
That has been a thing in Europe too. German car owner got tired of his car? That's when he hired a professional "thief" from Eastern Europe to come and "steal" his car so he can file an insurance claim and get his money back with much less headache than selling it. And at the same time Eastern European "thief" got himself a great new, often luxury car.
I'm dominican and i went to the dominican republic 2 years ago and i was suprised after watching so many AMG in the street ..like i live in NYC and i see a lot of AMG but not like that in a poor country .. then my cousin told me that they usually ship it from the US after they fix it from copart or stolen.
I was working night motel security in the late 1980s in San Diego and assigned to a cheap motel on a major east/west highway(I-8) that was a short drive to the west to connect with another major north/south highway(I-5), which ran along the west coast from the Canadian border down to Mexico. We would get a lot of unsavory characters there, like druggies and prostitutes, and occasionally we would get car thieves who would stay for a few hours to get some sleep while transporting a car down to Mexico to be placed on one of these cargo ships to be transported to Asia or South America for their auto black markets.
And you did nothing
@@J.G.Wentworth69420😂 like fr! 🤦♂️
@@J.G.Wentworth69420 On the contrary, since you seem so concerned about what happened, when he drove in I noticed that his unsavory demeanor and appearance did not match the car he was driving, plus he was trying to sneak another guest into the room for free. After I alerted the night manager about him, so that he could be billed appropriately, I kept an eye on him as he would go out at about 45 min intervals, indicative of drug activity very late at night. I scrutinized the car closely and noticed signs of forced entry near the door handle and ignition lock damage, suggesting that it was a stolen car. When I reported the information to San Diego PD, they ran the plate and found nothing and so did not want to pursue the matter. After more instances of suspicious activity, I again contacted the police and implored them to check further. When they called the registered owner at home he reported that the car was missing from his driveway. The cops came out, when I told them he was out, and I filled them in on the pattern of his behavior. We set a trap for him when he would return, where I would signal the cops with my flashlight when he drove in. They intercepted him, he ran and they ran him down and they found a nasty and hostile prostitute in the room.
This was such a good bust for the cops that the sergeant gave me his business card and invited me to call him personally, whenever I saw any kind of criminal activity.
Not all security guards are incompetent and lazy losers. Actually, I wasn't even a real security pro but a student working an easy night job while I was waiting to start my MS program in physics at San Diego State Univ. that fall.
@@videomaniac108 r u still in san diego????
@@greatestvideos3496 No, I left there in 2004 and moved up to Berkeley in the SF bay area after a divorce for a change of scenery.
This is where all our Classics go it is a damn shame😔
Yes. Exactly.
Last time I crossed into Mexico on foot, I wasn't checked by the Marinas or any Law enforcement. I just crossed over, so this doesn't surprise me at all, ✌️
It would not be hard for them to have the license plate reader 5 miles in advance of the border, so they can stop any cars approaching. They must not care about fixing the issue all that much.
How long ago was this? Because to cross into Tijuana, you have to walk through a scanner like you're getting on an airplane.
The US has given so much aid to Mexico. How is there so much crime and how are they not any bigger.
That's one of New Mexico's main job opportunities, gangs and organized crime.
Farming actually.
@@pirrracy Have been gang stalked here for years, so plenty of organized crime and gang problems, the farming you mentioned is the legitimate side of New Mexico.
Do you live here or did you google it? Sounds like you googled it or you would know.
@@streetchat5054 Manufacturing, Agriculture, mining, textiles, petroleum industry... crime is not the 'main job opportunity'.
@@pirrracy Did you google it or do you live here? If you googled it you don't know what you're talking about.
@@streetchat5054 Maybe its an attractive lifestyle choice for idiots or lazy people. Which are you?
Dad had a friend who bought a brand new 96 bronco and got stolen 1 week after he got it never saw it again
DON'T WORRY. I WILL SOON BE STEALING YOUR CAR TOO.
It's actually crazy how many different types of crime there are.... so sad
How do they leave without proper paperwork?
Majority of the stolen vehicles are in the U.S running around with new identity. Most patrol cops are just too clueless to detect them.
If the police took any time to look into it, the person would say they’re being “targeted” or “profiled” and liberals would back them. Cop gets fired and criminal gets settlement.
@macdaddyp8437 there are plenty of ways to detect them. Ill be happy to tell you if you're law enforcement.
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.
Yes so are they giving them back to the owners or are they selling them at an auction to make profit for that local police department???
Insane this amount of stolen goods just leaves port and no one seems to care
Back in the 80’s, my neighbor’s Chevy Blazer was stolen in LA. He spotted in Cabo a few months later being used as a police car.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 too good to be true
Its worth it to install a GPS tracker on your car - maybe even keeping an airtag / similar device hidden is enough to track it
They will figure a away to block those signals. There is no impossible for organized crimes.
then what you gonna do?
@@80glk5 you can find the vehicle before it gets shipped off
My favorite are Viper alarms. Because while they give you the option to track the car they also set off a siren and even keep the car from being started so it’s not as easy to steal it.
@@greenzeldayoshi4192 Yup I have the same alarm on my Camaro. But i had the installer hide the module deep in the car to make it very difficult to find
Thanks
I remember seeing this on The Sopranos.
THE SOPRANOS IS FAKE
@@nno3757 😂😂😂🙄 Really? I didn't know.
Yooo that man said an X8 😭😭😭😂😂
😭😭😭
The same thing is happening in Canada and going to the same countries.
If you ask around on Toyota forums you can be redirected to an African auction site where you regularly see cars for sale still with their US, CA and EU plates on them. People on the east coast tend to browse them when their cars get stolen in hopes of tracking them. Was either Sierra Leone or Liberia, I can't really remember. Another dead giveaway is they list cars under names/with badges and trim levels that were only designated for North America, or sometimes even US-only spec that wasn't available to even Canada or Mexico. Like 4Runners being sold instead of Hilux Surfs, or Infiniti G36's instead of Nissan Skylines
Why not use a pedal lock or steering wheel lock? It could be just enough of a deterrence that the thieves would look for an easier target.
Steering wheel locks are easy to bypass
@@armando_perezremote engine disable?
You can break the tumbler of "The Club" steering wheel lock with the same flathead screwdriver you can use on the ignition tumbler, and you can break the internal steering lock with your bare arms and leverage.
@@armando_perez The idea is to make the thief choose a different car
Just remove the entire steering wheel and shift knob
I remember a few years ago when a French peace force was stationed in I believe Serbia during the early 90s conflict with Kosovo...A lot of the country officials were driving cars with French license plates, they did a check and turned out most of the vehicles had been stolen in France.
Same with American guns. Where do you think the cartels get their guns?
Things like fast and furious always come back to haunt.
the mexican military mostly
@@eldebtor6973 🤡
We use manual rectangular rod like locks if we park outside for long. They can't be broken easily.
This was literally an episode in The Sopranos. They were stealing luxury vehicles and selling them in Russia. This isn’t new. Been happening since cars were invented.
There is already a video out there where the cars are stolen out of people's driveways and they show up in another country with all their stuff in it for sale
The auto manufacturers are to blame for how easy these cars are to steal because of the way they made them start
i agree. Cars are way too easy to steal by design.
And the same people will cry 1984 or Big government if they try to do anything about it
@@Sidicas thanks talk to text doesn't always work out great for me
That's why I hate keyless start. Geek with little knowledge can make a repeater that will extend the range of the remote to start the car. When you start it, you don't need a key until you shut it off... in a completely different country or in the shipping container. That's why it's a bad practice to hang keys for cars like this near the entrance to the house. I like my BMW's key for that reason, remote that needs to be put into the slot to start it, not as easy to steal it although not impossible too
Always park your car inside your garage.
Idk why we’re still so soft on Mexico, on everything.
If you aré in usa yall aré the ones doing this 😂😅 yall providing México just riding along
New Mexico is like hispanic alabama
"its one of the busiest years this year"
Steering wheel locks are good to have on but hidden trackers that cost $50 are even better!
Ok
@welvas. Yupp!
@@hg2blackcat411 yuppppper
My bmw x3 m40i got stolen 2 months ago within 6-7 minutes in front of the house around 5:30 pm. It’s really heartbreaking I still can’t believe this happened to us.. 💔
Broad daylight?
How’d they bypass the alarm and the security system?
@@joeyuetang754 they put some kind of gps tracker on our car and they were following us.. they have all the devices to steal your car
@@n_heer18
Did insurance cover it?
which state?
This is why we can't get a break on our car insurance thanks to.these thieves
So, why can't they arrest the person who sent the container or own the container? Somebody has to own those containers and what were in the containers.
Now i know where my 92 civic went
Huge problem in the UK too :(
My things is how long does each ship waits at a port til it’s departure ?
Maserati 🔥
This happened in Tacoma and Puyallup Washington too crazy to think it’s happening in about every state/area
I hope they hire more people to help with this crime. Incentive is high government pay.
Us customs also have a price. Remember that.
Yeah plenty of ppl in my area (northern nj) got arrested who worked at the port which is funny bc getting in that port as a job is hard enough cuz it’s union good pay so these guys raked in a lot of money
This is Gone in 60 seconds IRL 😂
I have quick release steering wheels installed on my cars. Go ahead. Forward or reverse?
I wish it was easy to have removable steering wheels on cars.
the camera quality in this video is top notch.
CBS trying to eat Vice’s lunch
Depending where they find your car. They will charge you just to return back to you. If u dont pay. The police keep it and sell it
This is nothing new. This has been going on for decades.
It's better to get stolen rather than found after trashing it. Insurance will cover 100%.
Love how all of this starts in Chicago. They need to get this under control.
Martial law
@@cappiece3786 are you out of your mind lol. Martial law. Gtfoh. Go live in Iran then you clown.
Where in this video did anyone say it started in Chicago?
@@tundaiclark8154 the beginning of this documentary. He stands on the bridge over I-90/I-94 in downtown Chicago
did anyone notice the officer misread the bmw? he called it an x8 but it was a x6 xdrive coupe
Some stolen cars end up in chop chops in New York City, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles & many more cities.
I think for every container they pop, there is a hundred that get through.
It’s hilarious that’s this is just getting brought up, it’s been happening for years.
Of course they don’t stop the guy who stole the car but stop the owner .. perfect example of the justice system
Imagine them putting this much effort into people.
This was not only happening in the USA. It is also happening in Canada, where stolen cars end up in West African countries like Ghana.
Yes border laws do affect American citizens.
This is so crazy because as someone who lives and drives near the border of Mexico
The closer youget to Brownsville you have stop stations going the other way checking for illegal immigrants and drugs
But they could install license plate scanners on the side driving tothe border and catch these cars
They are usually miles and miles away from the border so they would have plenty of time to get them
Yup few of my friends had their car stolen happens often
"Nice BMW... X8" what? 😂 1:36
I'm starting to thing new vehicles should have some kind of GPS or RFID in their ECU
Every vehicle should have a remotely detonated explosive device. Car gets stolen? Hit the red button. You should see how well this deters bike thieves once word of the consequences gets around. Instead of an RFID in their ECU, we need more POS in the ICU.
I truly believe that one day, all vehicles will be required to have trackers and dash cams.
And we all pay higher insurance rates as a result. More could be done but it’s just the cost of doing business.
"It's just the cost of doing business" it's weird how there's always a saying for when there's a problem that nobody wants to actually deal with that usually affects the majority of Americans
America
Nobody wants to steal my car. Just one look and thieves ignore it.
I love Officer Panzarino's NYC accent.
its more like a jersey accent tbh
@@SKC_carhe was born in the bronx
Thank you 🙏
I bought a used Toyota Avalon US imports from used car market in UAE, Sharjah, and it had a problem when starting it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I took it to more than one workshop and they couldn’t figure out the fault. Then I extracted the vehicle’s carfax, and there I was shocked that the notice of this vehicle was stolen, if I now something to communicate with them, then i confirmed that problem was in operating system, after that i completely replaced it and it works perfectly
This is where all our Classics go it is a damn shame. The police don’t even look for stolen cars..
He said X8 😂😂
No need to view….just watch gone in 60 seconds for a great answer.
They got the stolen cars but not the recipient or the sender 😤
You can’t tell me the shipping company didn’t know and these criminals probably didn’t pay off everybody else that’s why they got caught
key to crime. pay off everyone. you rip someone off, you will get burned. sometimes literally.
False manifests
Easy fix. Reader reports vehicle stolen, a crane picks the vehicle up and out of traffic to be investigated. If for some non-existent reason the reader was incorrect, the crane returns the vehicle and occupants wherever there is room or makes room on the congested freeway.
We need to get a government in here that will end the lives of every criminal across the country. No long trials, no soft prisons, no second chances, and therefore no repeat offenders. The moment someone steals, loots, robs, kidnaps, rapes, uses illegal drugs, or is in a gang is the day they end there life.
I don't think this is a good idea. Then criminals would just get into deadly standoffs, knowing that there is no mercy
This situation is disgusting. Most of us can't even afford a new vehicle and they're being sent to other countries. These high end dealers can afford to show exspensive cars in extravagant showrooms so why cant they build metal enclosures that can keep thieves from driving off w them. Also this could be employee inside work. Also , an strong metal fortified exit gate , ( with police notice alarm), would help. Yeah, all that is exspensive, but can they afford to keep losing all those high - end cars ?
lol most of them aren’t being stolen off car lots. They are being stolen off the street from everyday people after they are sold. What is someone gonna do keep a metal cage around their car 24/7?
My sister lives in NJ and she said that most recently there are stolen cars high end took to the port to ship them overseas to poor countries. She said she saw this thing happened in front of her eyes.
From law enforcement to politician all are paid off
Not mine..it has two diff custom security systems in it
that's the problem if your vehicle is nice
Why is Veritasium presenting the news?
You could tell me that but if I find out my car is somewhere else I'm going to track them down because I have a special set of skills do things that I don't want to do