Most vehicles need catalytic converters not only so they perform at their best, but also because it's the law. Here's how they work and why they are required.

A 52-year-old Sacramento man was found guilty of a series of high-volume thefts of catalytic converters in Visalia, the ...

Sean Michael Pelton of Sacramento was found guiltyof a series of high-volume catalytic converter thefts in Visalia.He was ...

Several of these criminals went to great lengths this week to steal a single catalytic converter from a used car lot and gained themselves a ton of embarrassment in the process. It took three ...

Two Craven County men were arrested after law enforcement with he Craven County Sheriff’s Office caught them attempting to ...

If you don’t know what a catalytic converter is, you need not lose sleep over it. The technology isn’t new and it’s present on virtually every car on the road today but there’s no real ...

Organised criminals can remove catalytic converters from under a vehicle in a matter of minutes. Catalytic converters contain precious metals such as rhodium, platinum and palladium which ‘clean’ ...

The catalytic converter is part of a car’s exhaust system. Its primary function is to complete (almost magically quickly) a chemical reaction process that filters fuel emissions to make them ...

The Craven County Sheriff’s Office says it happened on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. on the 4400 block of Old Cherry Point Road.

Catalytic converter thefts have surged in lockdown amid a spike in the value of precious metals, research shows. The RAC and insurer Ageas found the crime now accounts for three-in-10 thefts from ...