The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

Hensel Recycling, a Germany-based precious metals recycling firm, has announced that its U.K. subsidiary, located in West Sussex, has received the authorization by the U.K.’s Environment Agency to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Thursday that more than 600 catalytic converters were recovered by sheriff's police in a bust. Sheriff Dart said that the catalytic converters ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced what officials called the first national takedown of a criminal enterprise profiting from the rampant theft of catalytic converters. The scope of the car ...

Federal prosecutors have added to the charges against a local gang of thieves believed to have collected $10 million or more from the sale of catalytic converters stolen from cars across New England.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill expanding regulations governing the sale of catalytic converters to scrap yards in the state. The law attempts to reduce catalytic converter ...

Twenty-one people have been charged with crimes in connection to a nationwide catalytic converter theft ring that raked in over half a billion dollars, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.