Marysville Officer Catches Catalytic Converter Theft Suspect In The Act

MARYSVILLE (CBS13) — A suspected catalytic converter thief who was caught successful the enactment has been arrested aft a pursuit successful Marysville connected Monday.

Marysville constabulary say, conscionable aft 7 a.m., an serviceman was retired connected patrol on the 1700 artifact of C Street erstwhile helium noticed idiosyncratic underneath a car that was lifted with jack stands.

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The idiosyncratic nether the car past got retired and ran to different car conscionable arsenic the serviceman parked to investigate. This prompted a abbreviated pursuit until the fishy stopped astatine E. 11th and Sampson streets, past got retired and ran.

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Officers were capable to find the fishy – identified arsenic 51-year-old Olivehurst nonmigratory Phovong Borihanh – aft helium jumped into someone’s backyard.

Inside Borihanh’s car, constabulary accidental they recovered battery-operated cutting devices, burglary tools, and state siphoning materials.

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Police accidental they judge Borihanh was cutting a catalytic converter retired from the car that the serviceman primitively spotted him under. He has since been booked connected galore charges.

CBS13 Staff