Arrested for Stealing Luxury Cars Across 4. Chicago Suburbs. Wealthy suburbanites, you may want to put your car keys away. South Side thieves have targeted luxury cars in 4. Chicago area from Lake Forest to Barrington to Hinsdale, the Chicago Sun- Times is reporting. The bandits slipped into unlocked cars and drove away using keys or fobs they found inside cup holders or consoles, officials say. America's scooter industry is surging, benefiting from high gas prices and a slumping economy. Two other markers of their rising popularity have emerged: higher rates of theft and injury. Lock up your car and garage. Eagle police looking into car burglaries and thefts. Patrick Orr is the public information officer for the Ada County Sheriffs office and says these are crimes of opportunity, people driving around. Authorities believe at least 7. BMWs, Audis, Range Rovers and Infinitis — were pilfered by a loosely organized Chicago theft ring this year. Most have been recovered in South Side neighborhoods. One owner couldn’t recognize his car because the thieves had tinted the windows. Police have arrested about 1. Detectives believe they were using the cars while committing armed robberies and shooting at rival gang members. Video showed a black Audi that was stolen from Lake Forest hitting speeds of more than 1. Interstate 9. 4 while the passengers waved guns out of the window. A Lincoln stolen in Burr Ridge in July was later spotted at crime scenes in St. ![]() Charles, Lake Forest and Barrington before it was recovered in Chicago, police say. The thefts started on a cold winter day on the South Side after gang members searched Google for mansions they could target, Chicago Police Lt. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Wealthy suburbanites, you may want to put your car keys away. South Side thieves have targeted luxury cars in 40 wealthy towns across the Chicago area from Lake Forest to Barrington to Hinsdale, the Chicago Sun-Times is. Ed Wodnicki said.“They jumped in a car at 2 a. They would try the car door and find keys in the cup holder. These cars were ready to be stolen.”On Aug. Wodnicki was conducting a sting involving a laptop computer stolen in the northern suburbs. A tracking device showed the computer was on the South Side. Police set up a ruse, offering $5. Wodnicki dressed in civilian clothes and met a man who sought the reward. Wodnicki arrested the man in a bank parking lot. Wodnicki found a loaded . The man confessed to the computer theft and then spilled the beans on the luxury car theft scheme, Wodnicki said. He’s expected to be charged in federal court with being an armed habitual offender. On Aug. 1. 2, the Chicago Police organized a task force with suburban police departments to investigate the thefts. An Indian doctor named Amit Kumar was arrested in Nepal earlier this month, accused of being the leader of a 'kidney theft ring' that supposedly took up to 500 kidneys from unwilling donors over the past nine years. LEE — State police detectives are investigating the apparent theft of cash and narcotics from the Lee Police Department, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the Berkshire District Attorney's Office. Rio 2016: Australians report theft at Olympic Village with laptop and shirts stolen. Updated August 01, 2016 11:49:15. On the Thursday and Friday before Labor Day, officers drove throughout the South Side with license plate scanners and recovered 2. Wodnicki said. Of the 7. Oddly, the ring wasn’t selling the cars to chop shops for parts. Instead, they were using them in crimes and then dumping them, Wodnicki said. After they would steal cars, “one of the other things these brain surgeons did was burglaries in liquor stores,” Wodnicki said. He said the suspects were captured on surveillance cameras stealing booze, which allowed police to identify them in the car thefts. Wodnicki wouldn’t confirm whether the ring stole a sports car that resulted in a police- involved shooting in Chicago this summer. But he said: “It sure looks to us that any vehicle that you steal out of the rich suburbs and we find on the South Side are part of this pattern.”On July 2. Chicago Police officers chased a 2. Jaguar convertible that was stolen from Bolingbrook. An officer fatally shot Paul O’Neal, the 1. South Merrill in the South Shore neighborhood. Moments earlier, officers had fired at the Jaguar, which crashed into a police vehicle. The three officers who fired their weapons have been placed on desk duty while the Independent Police Review Authority investigates. Just before that incident, police had been chasing a stolen BMW in the same area. Wodnicki said most of the thieves belong to one of four gang factions on the South Side. The purloined cars were recovered in four South Side police districts: Wentworth, Grand Crossing, South Chicago and Calumet, he said. Published at 7: 5. AM CDT on Sep 1. 2, 2. Thefts of Plastic Trays Costing Food Retailers Millions in Losses. They are used to deliver eggs, bread, milk and other goods to supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants around the country. But plastic trays have become a hot commodity in South Florida and around the nation as thieves steal the plastic pallets, generally stacked up outside the store in a delivery area, and sell them to recycling facilities. Investigators say these trays are being stolen at alarming rates. Large retailers report losing millions of dollars per year because of stolen trays and pass down the costs to consumers. Thieves dropping the trays off at recycling facilities can get about 5. Rood said. The trays are shredded into resin, placed in large bins and then resold. People in possession of any of these items can be charged with possession of stolen property, a misdemeanor offense. As part of a new effort to crack down to this growing problem, companies are hiring investigators like Rood, who is currently working for a bread company, to halt its losses, about $3,0. In turn, they bring them there, they scrap them until you can’t even tell where they came from. Homestead Police arrested two men, Osvaldo Aguila and Saul Hernandez- Oporto, on June 2. Sedano's grocery store. Investigators said they had 3. Both Aguila, 5. 1, and Hernandez- Oporto, 4. Both men, who are facing up to five years in prison, if convicted, entered not guilty pleas. An attorney representing both men did not respond a request for comment. This summer in Miami, police stopped a van and found plastic trays and bins inside belonging to Tropical Supermarket and various companies. Jamaison Schuler, a spokesperson with Dean Foods Company, said theft of merchandise is a concern for all manufacturers, retailers and consumers. Law enforcement says people should call 9. Published at 6: 3. PM EST on Nov 1. 2, 2.
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