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A car with one of its windows broken. Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up from 724,872 in 2019. [1]
"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" is the first sentence of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, [1] and July 27 on home media, ...
A bait car, also called a decoy car, hot car, or trap car, is a vehicle used by law enforcement agencies to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars. [1] The vehicles are modified with audio/video surveillance technology, and can be remotely monitored and controlled. Those set up to catch car thieves may include GPS tracking.
A would-be car thief in Colorado Springs, Colorado, tried to steal a truck but had to abandon it because it had a manual transmission. A carjacker tried to steal a car he didn't know how to drive ...
Car thieves only sometimes target the entire vehicle. Often, they go after specific parts that are easy to remove and valuable to sell. But you don't have to be a victim. We spoke with automotive...
A 17-year-old in a stolen car was the subject of a cross-county chase when he hit a mom and her 23-year-old daughter driving on the highway, Oklahoma police said.
A trio of would-be car thieves in Queensland, Australia were attempting to nab an A80 Supra and a R34 GT-R, but were foiled by their own stupidity.
The Interception (Russian: Перехват, romanized: Perehvat; sometimes translated The Intercept) [1] is a Russian game show which aired between 1997 and 1998. The concept was for the contestant to "steal" (actually, be given the keys to) a car and avoid the police for 35 minutes, who were tracking the car's location via a radio transmitter.