ABILENE – A witness to a crime was injured when four men stealing catalytic converters ran into him with their vehicle as they escaped in Abilene Tuesday.
According to reports, a man witnessed four other men wearing bandanas, long sleeve shirts, baseball hats, and sunglasses working together to steal a catalytic converter from a car in a parking lot in the 500 block of Chestnut Street.
Allegedly, one man cut the converter off while another carried it to a white four door sedan where a driver and a passenger were waiting.
The witness then tried to stop the vehicle the suspects were in by stepping in front of it, but the driver struck the witness with the vehicle and fled.
No arrests have been made and the witness refused medical attention at the scene.
On April 12, 2022, Angelo State University Police were searching for a catalytic converter thief. It's unknown if the two cases have any relation.
Catalytic converters contain platinum, rhodium, and palladium which are valuable metals to scrap dealers.
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Anyone trying to steal the catalytic from my pickup is in for a big surprise. I have “fixed it” so it cannot be removed quickly. It will take a long time to do it, time enough to get caught or time enough not to even try. It’s a sad day when scum bags will steal parts from underneath your car to sell for very little money. I have a security system in my home, and security cameras watching my home. When I was a child I never remember this kind of thievery. The most popular theft was siphoning gasoline out of someone else’s car in order to go joy riding. But back then there was not hundreds of thousands of people crossing our southern border every month undetected! With the border only 150 miles away crime is going to get much worse!
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