{"id":107697,"date":"2025-07-31T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107697\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:59:11","slug":"lapd-salvage-yard-targeted-by-possible-catalytic-converter-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107697\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD salvage yard targeted by possible catalytic converter thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/C191266D560C7F90FD8245E16F6D9429.jpg\" alt=\"Alleged catalytic converter thieves at LAPD salvage yard\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; Los Angeles Police Department officers had their guns drawn following reports of thieves attempting to steal retired patrol vehicles at the department\u2019s salvage yard in downtown LA early Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">An LAPD official confirmed the department received a call about a group of suspects who were trespassing the lot located at 555 E. Ramirez Street around 3:10 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Responding officers found a metal cutting tool underneath one of the vehicles at the scene and a possible suspect was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Video from the scene shows the suspects may have been targeting catalytic converters. However, that was not confirmed by the LAPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Information about the suspects was not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>SUGGESTED COVERAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information provided by the Los Angeles Police Department on the morning of July 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/dtla\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown LA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/organization\/lapd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAPD<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles Police Department officers had their guns drawn following reports of thieves attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6082,41119,2961,26074,4530,224,6080,5337,50,12632,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-107697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-dtla","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-lapd","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-organization","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948208238459158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}