Pair Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Catalytic Converter From Work Truck At North Auburn Storage Lot

NORTH AUBURN (CBS13) — A study of a suspicious conveyance led to the apprehension of a brace of suspected catalytic converter thieves successful North Auburn.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says, backmost connected the nighttime of Dec. 22, a caller reported seeing a suspicious-looking conveyance driving astir a mini retention batch on Shale Ridge Lane.

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Deputies responded and pulled the car over, uncovering 2 radical – Auburn nonmigratory Jason Russell Shepherd and Sacramento nonmigratory Melissa Anne McCoy, some 43 – inside. With McCoy having an progressive warrant retired for her apprehension successful Sacramento County, deputies soon searched the car.

Inside, deputies accidental they recovered a catalytic converter and suspected burglary tools. About 4 pounds of marijuana were besides recovered successful plain view, on with a integer standard and different cause paraphernalia.

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Further, deputies accidental they recovered a database of catalytic converter people locations.

A cheque of surveillance video astatine the batch showed the brace stealing a catalytic converter from a enactment truck, the sheriff’s bureau says.

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Shepherd and McCoy person since been arrested and are facing charges of expansive theft, possession of stolen property, possession of burglary tools, tampering with a vehicle, and conspiracy among different charges.

CBS13 Staff