They were gone in 240 seconds. Surveillance video from a Queens homeowner captured a team of catalytic-converter thieves in action, showing just how easy it is to carry out the now skyrocketing crime.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Sometime in the middle of the night, thieves broke into a construction yard and stole four catalytic converters from Department of Public Works trucks. It's part of an epidemic of ...

NORTH AUBURN (CBS13) — A report of a suspicious vehicle led to the arrest of a pair of suspected catalytic converter thieves in North Auburn. The Placer County Sheriff's Office says, back on the night ...

Your gas- or diesel-powered car most likely has a catalytic converter. This means you might have heard about what thieves are doing to these vehicles. They’re leaving them without these important ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Catalytic converters are a hot ticket item on the black market, and as a result, Pierce County has seen a dramatic rise in catalytic converter thefts. Numbers from the Pierce County ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — In Minnesota and around the country, thieves are targeting cars and stealing the catalytic converter. The emission-controlled device can found at the bottom of the car, and has been ...

Across the United States, a crucial piece of emissions equipment has quietly turned into one of the hottest targets for organized theft. The catalytic converter, a metal canister most drivers never ...

FORTY FORT — Forty Fort police reported catalytic converters were stolen from five vehicles at two businesses Monday night into Tuesday morning. The vehicles were all Nissan NV 200 work vans, police ...

Cars making loud noises are never a good sign and are a particular hassle when the cause of the noise is a missing catalytic converter. Catalytic converters are regularly targeted car parts, sometimes ...