Last year a report said Auto theft is a national crisis that's affecting Canadians across the country and is being felt most acutely in Ontario. A whopping 80 percent of stolen vehicles in Canada are said to leave the country's ports and most end up in countries like Ghana. Also hundreds of vehicles were intercepted at US ports in 2023 and the number is on the rise.
That makes sense. The used to do the same thing in the states, most specifically using the NY/NJ waterfront shipping industry to operate "international" auto-thefts rings whose members stole cars, did tag jobs, and then shipped them in containers overseas to various nations ...the rings make a lot more money because of the inflated prices they could charge over there.
