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 News from Around the Americas | December 2007 
U.S., Mexico Join Forces Against Stolen Car Rings
 Associated Press
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Phoenix, AZ - The Department of Public Safety and their counterparts in Mexico are teaming up to put the brakes on car theft rings.
Thieves take about 50,000 Arizona vehicles a year. About 20,000 of them are never recovered.
About six months ago, Arizona and Mexican officials formed an eight-man stolen-vehicles unit led by Jesus Zamora Orozco, the police commander of the San Luis Rio Colorado police department in Mexico.
The new team represents growing cross-border cooperation to stop criminal car-theft rings that have plagued border states for years and are expanding into other crimes.
In October, the team broke up a Guadalajara-based ring that stole Arizona and California cars, replaced the VINs and made fake ownership papers to conceal the true owners.
The ring made the cars look like legitimate purchases.
Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com |
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