Cars stolen from DC, Maryland and Virginia intercepted at Port of Baltimore

7News I-Team was at the Port of Baltimore when U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted cars stolen from a Bethesda, Maryland dealership. The cars, valued at more than $400,000, were discovered before they disappeared overseas. We realized this operation is a part of a larger car theft ring.
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[@squangan]

Meanwhile in Ontario, Canada a guy electronically traced the second Range Rover he’s had stolen from his driveway THIS SUMMER to a shipping container at the port of Montreal. He reported where it was to the police who wouldn’t take action, he reported it to Canadian border control who also wouldn’t take action and told him they couldn’t guarantee the container holding his stolen vehicle wouldn’t be loaded and shipped to Africa anyways.He had to go to the port himself and pester the authorities before they’d open the container so he could retrieve his vehicle. The apathy shown by Canadian authorities was beyond pathetic and sad.

[@billblendick9780]

That is Canada all over total APATHY about everything except what they can get for free from the government !!!!

[@sandib4234]

Wow just so disgusting!!

[@ashruth9545]

In Canada only 10% of containers are searched

[@williamlouie569]

Now you know why your cars will be stolen. Because inaction of the authorities to stop the thieves even when you told them where the thieves hiding!

[@FirstLastOne]

You can that the Liberals for that. It's a catch and release program with Trudeau so nothing happens and most cops can't be bothered to deal with the paperwork.

[@shadow92992]

Somebody is paying the bills to ship these containers. How hard can it be to go after the money?

[@bobmahnamahknob]

What, with the way laws are designed to protect the moneyed, that should be a breeze, right?

[@MercedesE63S-AMG]

Money probably came from a biden off shore banking account & if the fbi asshos are involved they ain't saying a word.

[@oscarrmelchor]

They have acces to the information via banks. It is like they let the criminals without consenquences.

[@consciousobjector2507]

​@@bobmahnamahknobhuh?

[@bobmahnamahknob]

@@consciousobjector2507 That is a very well worded response. /s I don't know what I wrote that an adult of above average intelligence would have any trouble understanding. Where does this place you?

[@elblancochingon8138]

Sad how your new vehicle is tracked everywhere you go but thieves can still get away with stealing it!

[@miguelreyes4091]

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist2Jesus won’t save your car from getting away lol

[@baseballunderthelights2373]

We had a RR stolen in NJ. It was located in Port of Baltimore in a shipping container. This happened in Dec of 2021. The authorities sized it in December of 2021. As of Feb of 2022, we still had not received the vehicle back. Authorities stated since it was "exported" we had to pay to reimport it. In March we took an insurance settlement. Ridiculous the red tape to get your own property back.

[@glennrishton5679]

Dont forget that is the same benevolent and highly efficient go9vernment that people want controlling all aspects of our lives from what food we eat cooked on what type of stove to what sort of car we drive to how our children are educated to how our health care system is run.

[@George-dy3pt]

Of course look at our gooberment and the alphabet agencies actions these days! I mean try to snort cocaine in front of the feds leave the baggie on your table in your house and see if you don't get locked up for atleast 5 years! They'd definitely get DNA and fingerprints on the baggie from your home but not the white house!

[@George-dy3pt]

​@@glennrishton5679yea doctors and nurses who aren't even qualified to become doctors or nurses but they're still hired because of equality and diversity! It doesn't matter about ableness or experience!

[@andrew_koala2974]

The authorities sized it in December of 2021 ? Explain what SIZE was it - Small - Medium - Large or Extra large I would suggest you undertake an extensive reading program to educate yourself and learn to become a Master of the English language. Also - learn how to format text and use paragraphs. It is only difficult for those who have an IQ below 80 and are functionally illiterate DO not place a dot . after a numerical value unless the dot represents a decimal point. Continue any additional sentence on the next line. There is no extra fee for that. Pay attention to how text is formatted in newspapers - magazines and BOOKS. Read some of them and learn

[@39FORTYWATER]

Woo that's not right

[@evilfingers4302]

And as usual, no arrests were made on either end of the operation.

[@pro_154]

Nobody gets arrested when real crime goes down, and Street crime is basically a part of the entertainment industry at this point. You better start a career in crime before it becomes competitive

[@evilfingers4302]

@@pro_154 sounds like you're already on your way in becoming Public Enemy #1 huh?

[@evelynwaugh4053]

This type of investigation takes awhile. Interpol, the FBI, and other agencies all have to work together. It may take years, but they'll pay.

[@kylegallant3423]

arrests are now considered racist

[@joesantos8563]

You must be a cop😂😂​@@evilfingers4302

[@rickjames18]

I have no doubt the whole operation is known to many but people are paid to be quiet, employed, or used. It has to involve port workers, customs agents, and many others. The fact that all it took was a local news agency a few days to locate the stolen cars says much. At the same time, I have no doubt the customs agents that are clean are simply overwhelmed.

[@dyates6380]

I totally agree with what you said. NO WAY are a lot of people NOT aware of something this large in scale.

[@The_North0]

They don’t get pay enough to care.

[@rickjames18]

That as well.@@The_North0

[@VoteForBukele]

Automate all that shit.

[@danielmelendez9943]

if the car dealers were smart, they put out posters for anyone willing to give info and a reward. See how fast they get those cars back!

[@GreaserCentral]

one word.. "Corruption" that's why this happens. It's obvious someone is getting $$$ at those ports.

[@iLLSHiNEz]

For every container they find there are a thousand they miss. Great job 👏🏻

[@gchsbus]

IT IS AMAZING HOW SOMEONE LIKE ME could go overseas and buy a car that was not made to be sold in the USA and ship it here and US Customs will intercept it every time and tell me the car needs DOT and EPA approval and that I need to go through all this red tape to get it into compliance or I will need to ship it back or they will destroy it. Yet, car thieves here can just steal cars and ship them out right in front of customs agents and all of a sudden they do not have enough agents and they can't look in every container. I am just saying.

[@Kamone111]

Sounds like an inside job….they need to investigate the dealers bank accts and phone records.

[@ceciliapetrowsky2572]

There’s a lot more scrutiny on things coming into the US than leaving.

[@final0222]

Amen to that

[@paulparoma]

What you are "just saying" is a misunderstanding of the process. Import and export are two completely different things. Items shipped out of the US, when containerized, and not always inspected. However, every imported vehicle has to be accounted for. Most of the time, it's impossible to import a non-US vehicle unless it's at least 25 years old. In this case, it's not even about exporting cars, as any car can be exported. It's about cargo that happens to be stolen merchandise.

[@whereisthedollar]

There you go being all logical.🙂

[@beng2729]

Why is it so complicated. Just arrest whomever filed the paperwork to ship the cars.

[@salami99]

they probably used some BS LLC. corp sometimes with no name! just cash

[@joewoodchuck3824]

It's normal to use brokers for shipping. I guess that's the place to start.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@dr5290 I wouldn't say there's no way to trace the layers. It's just much more difficult.

[@dimmacommunication]

​@@dr5290US can't intervene in Delaware ?

[@JimmieBrown-sg8fq]

Last I checked a human still has to lay hands on the car to take it the final transfer point, start there and work up the food chain shouldn't be that difficult, corruption probably the biggest issue to overcome to shut this down.

[@sethc4758]

let me get this straight, they went to the dealership right after it had been robbed and that's when they started reporting on this story, then they went to the port of Baltimore because it was a key part of the story since lots of stolen cars are shipped out of that port and as they were there reporting from the port, port authorities happen to find 2 of the Mercedes stolen from the lot that started this whole story? that's what i got from the follow-up and handshake with the dealer at the end.. if so, that's a truly wild story.

[@a-wale6376]

they knew the stolen cars were at the port...

[@ronz101]

Thank you WJLA TV.

[@cargo4067]

How is it possible that there is no registration on who is shipping each container? The culprits should be able to be found that way.

[@trentdaddydolla647]

Who's going to check all these thousand of containers each day? It's not that easy without man power

[@eudofia]

​@@trentdaddydolla647What the OP is saying is that once a container has been discovered to have stolen vehicles, then trace it back to the individual or company whose name is on the manifest, and either arrest the individual or close down the company. You don't need to do that with every container. Just the ones with stolen vehicles.

[@bluecardholder]

Probably done through shell companies with no links to the organised gangs that operate the theft and export of the stolen cars.

[@tboneforreal]

All that registration is going to lead to is a shell company with an address that doesn't exist or a PO Box. We're talking about organized crime here not your average criminal on the street. These folks know how to cover their tracks.

[@tboneforreal]

@@francois1461 2 trillion dollars worth of goods were exported from the US last year. Nobody is going to hold up that much commerce to go through every container to make sure what is actually in the container matches up with the manifests.

[@withataman01]

I’m just saying this is an inside job at the shipping port. It’s impossible to think these car thieves are working by themselves.

[@shadyman6346]

Yeah, too many cars...arrangements made in advance.

[@papasquat355]

Our Nigerian friends being entrepreneurs. Their cybercrime and car theft network is impressive and amazing. They are licensed car dealers and have members working at ports around the country to ship the cars back home. Glad to see American law enforcement finally having some impact.

[@Highwaytoheaven777]

Great news & reporting!

[@Cycling_Arizona]

It’s clear that they don’t want to catch the criminals.

[@johnfoltz8183]

No, because the criminals will sue up the whazoo for damages done when they got caught breaking the law. After all, we don’t want to hurt their feelings. 🙄

[@TheRebuilt1]

black follks, we are immune from the law let our people tell it.

[@mrsleep0000]

That criminal enterprises are getting this big and this complex...shows we have a serious problem with our laws and enforcement.

[@r.d.9399]

The United States is turning into a third world country.

[@rickrudnick4108]

Govt gets their share

[@jetgdvsdfgd]

Diversity is our strength 🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵

[@Kenneth-ts7bp]

Special privilege

[@YallaMiami]

@@omi_godwhy would we hire more people? Let’s send our money to Ukraine and Israel. And let’s just spend more on defense and invade other countries. We don’t have extra money to spend on hiring more people to protect our own citizens ☺️

[@billucf96]

If using a forklift is the only way to move a stolen car without keys, then how do thieves end up driving them?

[@SmoothbassmanStudios]

Most cars have keyless entry nowadays. You can use an electronic device to fake the keys to get it running and drive it to where they load them up.

[@straightpipediesel]

They don't drive them, they use a tow truck. Look on KZbin for repo and illegal parking tows, takes them less than a minute.

[@ewoewoewo4870]

"as many as we have to" lol, my shift is over, clock out

[@johniii8147]

No doubt people at the port are being paid off to let them slip through.

[@jojopapa7521]

But why is it NOT possible to arrest those who paid to ship those containers???

[@BT-zw2ix]

Ports are usually some sort of multilingual jungle where anybody can rent out a spot and come with his container loaded up already or not. There is close to zero control when it comes merchendise inspection regardless of the nature, especially for export. It's unbelievable.

[@danielebrparish4271]

Ports, like UPS, get paid to load and unload containers what's in those containers is not their concern. Customs is concerned with what gets brought into a country:: drugs, weapons and other illegal items, what leaves is not their concern.

[@giornogiovanni5655]

I don't know why a Mercedes dealer in Bethesda with millions in inventory wouldn't have security monitoring service. Pennywise, pound foolish.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

They don't even need security. Each car can be deactivated - meaning they simply will not start no matter what. Why those cars were not put in that mode overnight is anyone's guess. Criminal motive by the dealer would be at the forefront.

[@giacomu1]

He was not happy when he saw his car back at the dealership because the insurance Co just denied his claim.

[@giornogiovanni5655]

@@giacomu1 Absolutely!

[@-SP.]

@@giacomu1 Yeah now he has to sell the car at a loss because it was stolen. He's definitely not happy

[@jaminova_1969]

Has to be an insurance scam for inventory that won't move.

[@jawkman101]

Salesman didn’t seem happy abt getting the cars back😂 he probably would’ve preferred the insurance money😂

[@danielebrparish4271]

The insurance money goes to the manufacturer. The dealer pays interest on the wholesale price of the car until it is sold. When sold, the manufacturer gets paid and anything above that price is the dealers to keep.

[@zovirax2012]

Very informative video ❤

[@SuperAgentman007]

That guys dealership must have the best security system ever😂

[@edwardspaccarelli5944]

I think he was disappointed when he saw the G wagon coming back. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in on the theft.

[@tboneforreal]

@@edwardspaccarelli5944 He was planning on getting that insurance check. Now he got a car that's probably devalued and he'll have to take a loss on selling it.

[@nhojyelbom]

@@tboneforreal insurance check only covers actual cost, with deductible removed. dealers LOSE money when this happens. getting inventory is still hard, they make money buy selling them not getting insurance payout

[@ligmasack9038]

@@nhojyelbom not when you are talking about a G Wagon, whose only interested Buyers are the ones from "Da Hood"; which means that it will be Repo'ed, or destroyed anyways...

[@nhojyelbom]

@@ligmasack9038 sold hundreds, none of your statements are facts in my experience

[@warriormom_of_many]

This has been happening for many, many years at the ports.

[@sec0ndton0ne408]

Facts since the 80s. Gone in 60 seconds is real lol

[@Lizzy-ij1bk]

You would think by now they would have had figure out a better solution....seems like to me it's simply just allowed...no excuses... crazy,. You have to sit back and just shake your head..

[@yanni2112]

Didn't Tony Soprano have something to do with this?

[@buckdashe2571]

There is always someone in the chain that can be bought. Those Bethesda thieves knew exactly where the keys were stashed. A shipping container doesn’t magically appear to be loaded with cars. Shipping ports all over the world only need a few people to be on the take. Those Mercedes G Wagons are butt-ugly.

[@cosmothewonderdog8602]

A simple electronic tracking device on each car would greatly reduce this problem.

[@GodsChosenMekAmoR]

Pleaseeeee lock them up. How are they shipping with no identification?

[@patmcbride9853]

They should be put in a container and shipped to Africa.

[@GodsChosenMekAmoR]

@@patmcbride9853 🤣🤣🤣

[@auntiem873]

There is an ID, it says Something like sun corporation. Customs does not verify every name on the manifest. To make sure they are a light business. Even if they did, what’s to stop them from saying Microsoft is shipping the container? You think Microsoft should be shut down and everyone arrested for car theft? Prove in court that anyone in that company knew their name was being used and that they knew there were stolen vehicles in the container?

[@giacomu1]

No no no, this guys came for reparation money and couldn't wait any longer and decided to get cars instead reparation.

[@GodsChosenMekAmoR]

@@giacomu1 🤣🤣🤣

[@nixonbd53]

That is ridiculous! Employees at the port are in on this!

[@Acemobilesuit]

After you are murdered the local police may figure it out before nothing will be done as we don’t have enough evidence thanks for your tax money cooperation

[@rondye9398]

I was part of a management team in the early 1970's Transcontinental trucking co. Just an incredible amount of missing freight, especially off the West Coast Ports. No containers then. Collusion between the Dock Workers and truck Co. workers. It was looked at like a Port tax. To do their business required 'paying' the dock workers their share.

[@jetgdvsdfgd]

Diversity is our strength 🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵

[@Pterygotus]

This is literally The Wire season 2 lmao

[@elblancochingon8138]

And most likely the dealership!

[@bricecay1765]

I worked on a car ship that would stop in Baltimore and you would always hear about being delayed because they found more stolen cars.😂

[@christinao8877]

I worked for a car rental company in NJ and they found out employees were linked to their stolen vehicles. So Mercedes should check their employees.

[@smartwalletandme9624]

Look no further than the port employees and customs agents.

[@handymanr4729]

Corruption at its finest

[@Soul_Flow_]

what do you mean? are you saying that government is involved in this stolen car process?

[@MercedesE63S-AMG]

​@@Soul_Flow_ Exactly & I wouldn't say at its finest neither. They are getting busted but nobody is doing anything about it. To me finest would mean can't prove anything. 🤷

[@zazasnruntz7505]

White people complaining about theft in a stolen country always makes me laugh

[@handymanr4729]

@@Soul_Flow_ No, the shipping company and docks staff are in on it

[@unknown-x-1777]

Why is no one getting arrested. This is outrageous

[@memecat84]

It’s funny how they don’t arrest anybody. Shut the goddamn port.

[@HelloAutoCarz]

They all in on it… including the dealerships! Remember brand new fords having cocaine stored in the doors heading for the dealerships??

[@wonipowa7542]

Probably means billions of dollars in damage to the US economy to shut the port

[@bobmahnamahknob]

"sHuT tHe pORt" It's not the port that is stealing cars. People are getting fu*king dumber by the day, I swear to jeebus.

[@MercedesE63S-AMG]

You know who else don't get arrested? Anyone with the last name of biden so it makes you stop & think... is their criminal organization into this too? Maybe it's the fbi making some side money. 🤷

[@TheGoonSquadd]

@@HelloAutoCarzthis man gets it. And in the south dealerships work with cartels so when new cars come across the borders they can transfer drugs

[@lupavo1738]

They will not be selling that G-wagon at a "significant discount," even delusional to say the least.

[@SlickRick135]

That one is probably going to the head kingpin for his personal use.

[@reensure]

I hope that diversion will be noted on its CarFax

[@SteveJobIess]

That is giving the dealership the headache of deaing with a chopped up vehicle. Wouldve been better never seeing that vehicle again.

[@ahlmost]

Dang

[@MRBRUSHLESS]

Awesome video my friend nice 😊 share killer bash session and jumps with XRT great job thumbs up 👍

[@clikzip]

That dealer wasn't happy to see those cars return. He just lost his insurance payout.

[@vittoriovuocolo2438]

Exactly. Now he's got to try and sell a scratched up car.. the forklift is not gentle on vehicles

[@vincem2759]

@@vittoriovuocolo2438 I would buy a stolen G wagon if it was brand new.

[@orlandocastillo6862]

Those cars belong to the insurance now , they will send it to salvage auction and get some money back since they are deemed total loss already

[@EmmanueltheGod]

@@vincem2759Lmaoo fr hand me the keys🫴🏽

[@MotorDext]

No cap dealer looked salty it was found hah

[@ctbt1832]

There is a way to stop this. And as far as shipping these cars to any part of the world, what they need to do is find the people who are shipping the vehicles, lock them up for sometime and then send them back to the country they came from.

[@DailyCabinLife]

From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates.[29] Slave quarters Edit At night the slaves were put into prisons called 'bagnios' (derived from the Italian word "bagno" for public bath, inspired by the Turks' use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons),[30] which were often hot and overcrowded. Bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops and bars run by captives.[31] Galley slaves Edit See also: Galley slave Conquest of Tunis by Charles V and liberation of Christian galley slaves in 1535 Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better than those endured by galley slaves. Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. There were exceptions: galley slaves of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople would be permanently confined to their galleys, and often served extremely long terms, averaging around nineteen years in the late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century periods. These slaves rarely got off the galley but lived there for years.[32] During this time, rowers were shackled and chained where they sat, and never allowed to leave. Sleeping (which was limited), eating, defecation and urination took place at the seat to which they were shackled. There were usually five or six rowers on each oar. Overseers would walk back and forth and whip slaves considered not to be working hard enough. Number of people enslaved Edit According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34] However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period, stating: There are no records of how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed, or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves were needed annually to replenish numbers-about 850,000 captives over the century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000.[5] Thomas Jefferson When Thomas Jefferson became president, the pirates increased the cost of the tribute and Jefferson refused to pay it. Instead, he sent United States warships to the Mediterranean Sea, which eventually began bombarding the pirate bases. The pirates surrendered in 1805 in what came to be known as the First Barbary War. What was the white slave trade called? The Barbary slave trade involved slave markets in the Barbary States. European slaves were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean. Slavery in medieval Portugal Slaves exported from Africa during this initial period of the Portuguese slave trade primarily came from Mauritania, and later the Upper Guinea coast. Scholars estimate that as many as 156,000 slaves were exported from 1441 to 1521 to Iberia and the Atlantic islands from the African coast. Did Brazil import more slaves than the United States? Work on the wharf has also revealed the scale of the slave trade in Brazil. Of the 9.5 million people captured in Africa and brought to the New World between the 16th and 19th century, nearly 4 million landed in Rio, 10 times more than all those sent to the United States.Oct 23, 2012

[@canadiananon8208]

They are rarely able to tie the actual individuals to these kinds of crimes because of the use of shell corporations and the inconsistent paper trails of false identities and signatures. It takes years to sift through some of these cases; many of the perpetrators will likely be long gone or already locked up for something else by the time they have the evidence to go to trial. It's a broken system.

[@cherylparker9963]

That part............

[@violent_bebop9687]

The thieves should be sent back in different containers...!!!

[@kman-mi7su]

Yeah, that'll teach them! HAHAHA Three hots and a cot plus if they need to see a doctor, or dentist, or want to get an education, they'll get it. Nope, you get caught, you lose a hand, caught a second time, and you get a permanent nap.

[@amandacox5682]

You don't have to check them all, but definitely check all of those heading to West Africa.

[@MichaelImo]

Its not just west africa that have a demand for these vehicles and if that was the case they would just route them to another country first before going to west africa.

[@outbackeddie]

Stories like this are why I love my 24-year-old SUV.

[@ralphemerson497]

Nothing enters or leaves this country that reams of paperwork isn’t created and filed. You need customs agents for every container. Many high levels bureaucrats involved in this.

[@kathrynw3]

Good luck with that one, border patrol is low priority at the ports, but keeping people seeking asylum out of the country now that's going to be top of the list.

[@lunamaxwell6190]

Exactly, follow the money trail.

[@HunkMine]

It's a manpower issue. 100 people to check 8,000 items a day. That's 800 items per person, its impossible to verify 100 items per hour with your 8 hr shift. Especially when it's all packed in shipping containers.

[@ralphemerson497]

@@HunkMine 80 to 85% of containers are legitimate business, reputable paperwork and shippers. The other 15 to 20% of container traffic is suspect. Stolen cars, drugs, etc. Ever notice, regardless of all additional money spent, new equipment purchased, new search parameters, it all comes back to “just not enough people.”

[@danasmith858]

When it doesn't pay to hire the usual suspects

[@Itsme-mx5tl]

This is discriminating against criminals!!! Those vehicles indentify as NOT stolen

[@memecat84]

They need to shut down the port or change policy to shipping any vehicle. This is unacceptable.

[@Trash-Beats]

My Nigerian ppl are very busy there in USA 😢

[@giacomu1]

Your Nigerian people came for reparation money as slaves or related to slaves and almost left with a G class, not bad.

[@jaym8299]

Bet you the dealers are pissed they were found... They either were in on it, wont get their full insurance claim, have to lie about it being stolen or now have to take a huge lose selling it..

[@Been.Here.Since.2007]

They made the choice to enter the game. The whole dealership universe is a strange and awful place. Only the worst become King

[@SummerSausage1]

They deserve it. How much is a security guard? 10$/hr? How long is the night? 8 hours? They could spend $80 to protect the dealership, but they choose not to. Why? Because they're in on it.

[@qbanz00]

The dealer gets paid insurance, the thieves get paid, the port authority gets paid…only person getting screwed is the billion dollar corporation that made the car 😂

[@pierrecastanets1974]

The car company gets paid too. Insurance “loses” but they probably use it as a tax break.

[@HelloAutoCarz]

These cars are soo expensive and how come it’s so easy to steal?? What happened to all the so called technology that supposedly justifies the price??

[@Cristian121212100]

Are you dumb? They broke into the dealer and stole the keys. These cars are impossible to steal unless you have the key which the dealer had.

[@InsanePandaWanderer]

You have to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the technology that comes with the car you bought

[@AmoreG94]

Bc there’s technology to counter technology.

[@jonathanjudd3168]

​@@waynesbutler7834I think Chrisfix did something like install a fuel pump relay "kill switch" in the interior of the car. You can use it every day.

[@tboneforreal]

It's cat and mouse because every lock has to have a key, whether it is physical or digital. If you lose your key, someone has to be able to program a new one for you, right? That means there has to be a tool to make the keys. Not hard for these thieves to get access to the tools.

[@SuperAgentman007]

All you have to do is check where the container is going to and if it’s going to certain areas where a car theft is prevalent, those are the containers you check and if you don’t, then you’re not doing your job

[@conchobar]

Not with only 100 agents

[@bill392]

Maybe they go to other countries first and get transferred to another boat and shipped again.

[@The-Heart-Will-Testify]

What if the agents are being bribed too? They could be in it too

[@unknownscp169]

Nikkas really livin that gta life

[@madrigaldeoro4095]

He was more upset he couldn't Collect an Insurance payout, lol.

[@kolsen6330]

Years ago there was a russian roro ship that came into Tacoma every couple months, The Captain Mann. One day the terminal security noticed that the crew would walk out of the terminal and return a couple hours later in a car. When they checked the ship, there were almost 100 stolen cars onboard. The entire crew, from the captain down, was arrested. Thats how new cars got to Vladivostok.

[@williamhenry9705]

No one arrested nor will anyone be arrested.

[@williamreilly5469]

Let's defend the police...we don't need any of them...sure~

[@natalymurrieta2653]

Bathesa guy was madder when he saw that g wagon come back, hes like “there goes my insurance claim” 😂😂😂😂

[@Aeternum_Gaming]

as much as cars are overpriced right now, i feel zero sympathy for a car salesman.

[@imigbo3878]

The most outrageous thing is that these stolen cars are sold in Africa, especially Nigeria, far higher than what they are bought in the USA and Canada.

[@richardgentry6996]

U know damn well the dealership doesn't want them back after being reported stolen. 😉

[@alainportant6412]

how

[@Jay_P86]

@@alainportant6412insurance payout. Now they have to sell the stolen cars for cheap

[@ray24051]

A $400,000 car? I I think they would want that back.

[@alainportant6412]

@@ray24051 maybe the car is insured for $400k so if it gets stolen they get $400k but if they just sell it they make less because of taxes and shit

[@alive4082]

Dang Africa 😂. I ship my car to Hawaii and had to give copy of registration, title and insurance wtf

[@diamondzrain1216]

That’s crazy

[@westondaniel]

Amazing security at that dealership!

[@stoundingresults]

If your car is worth a lot you need a real time gps tracking device. Hidden and with it's own power source.

[@gravityent9943]

These dealers don’t care. They already know insurance gonna cover the lost.

[@firstlast9292]

@@gravityent9943 Insurance only covers actual loss. And insurance goes up. Nobody wants theft.

[@rollotomassi6374]

Yet, the state of Maryland will find a way to fine and penalize people for not having insurance on a vehicle, stolen or otherwise.

[@dgrant7291]

Thats easy revenue and that's all police departments are really are interested in.

[@r.d.9399]

We need to get tough on crime again in this country or this may be the end of the United States.

[@kathrynw3]

well Maryland is a money gouging hellscape after all.

[@java4653]

LOL. Out of all the Loser comments here, this one is the funniest. What's wrong? Why are you rich with lots of cars like me?

[@jetgdvsdfgd]

Diversity is our strength 🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍

[@iliketakingshowers]

Dealer was pissed😂 when they brought them back

[@mrluis9456]

In 2023 they don’t have sophisticated x-ray machines that scan containers automatically 🤔

[@brianazmy3156]

So much for the dealer's insurance fraud hustle

[@quanyin1556]

😂😂😂BINGO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@starventure]

Hope the insurance company grills their asses and then drop them.

[@firstlast9292]

Insurance only pays what they paid for the vehicle. And then insurance rates go up. Where's the profit?

[@user-xw4vg1vy5e]

Thru could have scheduled the vehicles for a certain amount. There's their profit...

[@truebetold65]

Give police the authority to stop, frisk, and pop up check points.

[@reggveg]

I'm a retired truck driver I hauled containers in and out of the port of Baltimore. Customs inspected every container I brought into the port containing cars for inspection. The biggest problem I saw was most of these cars were loaded in a way to make it difficult to check the VIN number. I've seen people loading overseas containers with household goods on South Newkirk Street right next to the port. Some of these containers had cars loaded on them and they would completely load household goods on them like they were trying to hide the vehicles.

[@a-wale6376]

You can put anything you want in a container..its not a problem! cars, TVs laptops anything

[@turiflames4990]

That felt more like "Gone in 60 seconds"😅

[@dbuc4671]

Same thing in canada. recently a ton of suspects got arrested here for attempting to smuggle high-end cars to Africa.

[@petercook3143]

At the same time, if I wanted to transport a car that was insured registered and titled to me to London or Sydney, these same agents would spot something wrong with my valid paperwork, like say, the weight of the vehicle or how many cylinders and flag it, then Id have to pay some fee and wait 2 weeks hoping someone would call me back about the situation. meanwhile, Gigatons of the illegal stuff is going through. Like a bad oyster through the sphincter.

[@SunnyDiegoProduction]

I ordered Mizuno Football boots from England to the USA a while back(now they’re sold here), the boots were intercepted and they wanted me to pay more than what I had paid for the boots lol they kept them, never sent them back to the shipper. I should have shipped them inside a stole car!

[@kindyesweakno]

I just watched an episode about car smuggling on National Geographic's show "Underworld, Inc". It was an incredible documentary that took the viewer through the entire channel of stolen cars, from thieves to buyers in Africa. They interviewed this one guy who had a legit autobody shop that purchased a device to get around security systems for almost any make of car. Not only did he use the device, he rented it out to other thieves at a weekly rate.

[@marioacevedo5077]

I saw that episode. Amazing how a buyer in Ghana could place an order for a particular model of car, have it stolen as far away as LA, and then have it delivered. Most telling detail in this news article: "No one has yet been arrested. I'm shocked."

[@GodsChosenMekAmoR]

That's dirty, wow! Swindlers and Thieves, lol and smh.

[@AmoreG94]

Episode?

[@cesarsanchez7768]

Where can I see this ?

[@kindyesweakno]

@@cesarsanchez7768 Disney Plus

[@BC-iz8gt]

Part of his problem is law enforcement and Courts for not punishing people the way they used to be

[@TymexComputing]

That car dealer doesnt look much happy when they found his "lost" car :)

[@72seeker72]

Corruption. It's everywhere.

[@lowandslow3939]

It can’t be that hard to disable them while they sit at the showroom and track them once stolen. SMH

[@iamnate6415]

exactly, some other hidden parties must be involved and benefitted in someway and keep this theft happening

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

Especially Benz, they can do that globally using satellite. We just had a G Wagon recovered in less than an hour that was deactivated while the black pieces of shit that stole it were in the middle of driving it on I-10 outside of LA. They literally had nowhere to go. It was actually hilarious.

[@DailyCabinLife]

@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates.[29] Slave quarters Edit At night the slaves were put into prisons called 'bagnios' (derived from the Italian word "bagno" for public bath, inspired by the Turks' use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons),[30] which were often hot and overcrowded. Bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops and bars run by captives.[31] Galley slaves Edit See also: Galley slave Conquest of Tunis by Charles V and liberation of Christian galley slaves in 1535 Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better than those endured by galley slaves. Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. There were exceptions: galley slaves of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople would be permanently confined to their galleys, and often served extremely long terms, averaging around nineteen years in the late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century periods. These slaves rarely got off the galley but lived there for years.[32] During this time, rowers were shackled and chained where they sat, and never allowed to leave. Sleeping (which was limited), eating, defecation and urination took place at the seat to which they were shackled. There were usually five or six rowers on each oar. Overseers would walk back and forth and whip slaves considered not to be working hard enough. Number of people enslaved Edit According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34] However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period, stating: There are no records of how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed, or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves were needed annually to replenish numbers-about 850,000 captives over the century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000.[5] Thomas Jefferson When Thomas Jefferson became president, the pirates increased the cost of the tribute and Jefferson refused to pay it. Instead, he sent United States warships to the Mediterranean Sea, which eventually began bombarding the pirate bases. The pirates surrendered in 1805 in what came to be known as the First Barbary War. What was the white slave trade called? The Barbary slave trade involved slave markets in the Barbary States. European slaves were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean. Slavery in medieval Portugal Slaves exported from Africa during this initial period of the Portuguese slave trade primarily came from Mauritania, and later the Upper Guinea coast. Scholars estimate that as many as 156,000 slaves were exported from 1441 to 1521 to Iberia and the Atlantic islands from the African coast. Did Brazil import more slaves than the United States? Work on the wharf has also revealed the scale of the slave trade in Brazil. Of the 9.5 million people captured in Africa and brought to the New World between the 16th and 19th century, nearly 4 million landed in Rio, 10 times more than all those sent to the United States.Oct 23, 2012

[@DailyCabinLife]

@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh George Washington's Vision" This afternoon, as I was sitting at this table engaged in preparing a dispatch, something seemed to disturb me. Looking up, I beheld standing opposite me a singularly beautiful female. So astonished was I, for I had given strict orders not to be disturbed, that it was some moments before I found language to inquire the cause of her presence. A second, a third and even a fourth time did I repeat my question, but received no answer from my mysterious visitor except a slight raising of her eyes. By this time I felt strange sensations spreading through me. I would have risen but the riveted gaze of the being before me rendered volition impossible. I assayed once more to address her, but my tongue had become useless, as though it had become paralyzed. A new influence, mysterious, potent, irresistible, took possession of me. All I could do was to gaze steadily, vacantly at my unknown visitor. Gradually the surrounding atmosphere seemed as if it had become filled with sensations, and luminous. Everything about me seemed to rarefy, the mysterious visitor herself becoming more airy and yet more distinct to my sight than before. I now began to feel as one dying, or rather to experience the sensations which I have sometimes imagined accompany dissolution. I did not think, I did not reason, I did not move; all were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing fixedly, vacantly at my companion. Presently I heard a voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn," while at the same time my visitor extended her arm eastwardly, I now beheld a heavy white vapor at some distance rising fold upon fold. This gradually dissipated, and I looked upon a stranger scene. Before me lay spread out in one vast plain all the countries of the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and America. I saw rolling and tossing between Europe and America the billows of the Atlantic, and between Asia and America lay the Pacific. "Son of the Republic," said the same mysterious voice as before, "look and learn." At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being, like an angel, standing or rather floating in mid-air, between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hollow of each hand, he sprinkled some upon America with his right hand, while with his left hand he cast some on Europe. Immediately a cloud raised from these countries, and joined in mid-ocean. For a while it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward, until it enveloped America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightning gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard the smothered groans and cries of the American people. A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean, and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean, in whose heaving billows in sank from view. A third time I heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn," I cast my eyes upon America and beheld villages and towns and cities springing up one after another until the whole land from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dotted with them. Again, I heard the mysterious voice say, "Son of the Republic, the end of the century cometh, look and learn." At this the dark shadowy angel turned his face southward, and from Africa I saw an ill omened specter approach our land. It flitted slowly over every town and city of the latter. The inhabitants presently set themselves in battle array against each other. As I continued looking I saw a bright angel, on whose brow rested a crown of light, on which was traced the word "Union," bearing the American flag which he placed between the divided nation, and said, "Remember ye are brethren." Instantly, the inhabitants, casting from them their weapons became friends once more, and united around the National Standard. "And again I heard the mysterious voice saying "Son of the Republic, look and learn." At this the dark, shadowy angel placed a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, he sprinkled it upon Europe, Asia and Africa. Then my eyes beheld a fearful scene: From each of these countries arose thick, black clouds that were soon joined into one. Throughout this mass there gleamed a dark red light by which I saw hordes of armed men, who, moving with the cloud, marched by land and sailed by sea to America. Our country was enveloped in this volume of cloud, and I saw these vast armies devastate the whole county and burn the villages, towns and cities that I beheld springing up. As my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, clashing of sword, and the shouts and cries of millions in mortal combat, I heard again the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn" When the voice had ceased, the dark shadowy angel placed his trumpet once more to his mouth, and blew a long and fearful blast. "Instantly a light as of a thousand suns shone down from above me, and pierced and broke into fragments the dark cloud which enveloped America. At the same moment the angel upon whose head still shone the word Union, and who bore our national flag in one hand and a sword in the other, descended from the heavens attended by legions of white spirits. These immediately joined the inhabitants of America, who I perceived were will nigh overcome, but who immediately taking courage again, closed up their broken ranks and renewed the battle. Again, amid the fearful noise of the conflict, I heard the mysterious voice saying, "Son of the Republic, look and learn." As the voice ceased, the shadowy angel for the last time dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it upon America. Instantly the dark cloud rolled back, together with the armies it had brought, leaving the inhabitants of the land victorious! Then once more I beheld the villages, towns and cities springing up where I had seen them before, while the bright angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried with a loud voice: "While the stars remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last." And taking from his brow the crown on which blazoned the word "Union," he placed it upon the Standard while the people, kneeling down, said, "Amen." The scene instantly began to fade and dissolve, and I at last saw nothing but the rising, curling vapor I at first beheld. This also disappearing, I found myself once more gazing upon the mysterious visitor, who, in the same voice I had heard before, said, "Son of the Republic, what you have seen is thus interpreted: Three great perils will come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the third, but in this greatest conflict the whole world united shall not prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn to live for his God, his land and the Union." With these words the vision vanished, and I started from my seat and felt that I had seen a vision wherein had been shown to me the birth, progress, and destiny of the United States.

[@jessihawkins9116]

@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhhoh you are racist 😲

[@chevyDboyMike]

Gone in 30 seconds is the sequel to gone in 60 seconds

[@Cristian121212100]

I buy all my parts from that dealer, really nice people such a shame some good for nothing parasites of society are out here stealing from hard working people.

[@SunnyDiegoProduction]

I didn’t know that dealership sold parts for riding lawnmowers!

[@user-xw4vg1vy5e]

Lame...

[@Cristian121212100]

@@SunnyDiegoProduction they don’t? I bought them for my Mercedes, duh.

[@leroyusa935]

All of those workers are guilty. Start arresting them for grand theft and make them disclose who or whom is behind this operation. They're all getting money and probably not declaring any of it as income. The port authorities and IRS should be putting pressure on this organized theft ring.

[@auntiem873]

What workers are you talking about? The dealership The port/dock workers? Who? The dock workers send them to customs before they are loaded up and customs sends them through the x-ray machine. They are the ones catching them. Other than that, they don’t know who stole them let alone who shipped them. The name in the Bill of Laden isn’t their real name or company. So who are the cops going to round up and pressure?

[@leroyusa935]

@@auntiem873 All of them. They know these are stolen vehicles.

[@auntiem873]

@@leroyusa935 - the customs people found them and are returning them. Not every vehicle shipped out of the country is a stolen vehicle. Ford motors USA ships cars out to individual people. So, who’s to say the vehicle in the shipping container is stolen? They can’t open the seal on the container without probable cause. The customs agent even said so. They just need that excuse. But if the bad guys put down what is really in there, they can’t open them. However, if they put down what’s really in them the person shipping has to pay a tariff goods leaving and coming into the country get taxed, that tax depends on what it is. Something expensive gets a higher tax than something cheaper. Which is why the agent said they look and the manifest and see that the person put down a car but when they looked it was a pickup. That means they lied because a pickup is a higher tax. But if they didn’t lie they would have no cause to open the container.

[@violent_bebop9687]

​@@auntiem873 1) the person who filled put the shipping paper and paid for the freight. 2) the receiving shipper that put stolen car in the container and filled out the declaration of goods.

[@auntiem873]

@@abaymine3380 - you really need to know the law. This is not individuals or private citizens looking it is the government. The law is clear, they need probable cause to pop the seal. Are their dirty agents? Sure, the agency does try to catch them and prosecute them. Most are honest agents. As such, they will want the probable cause.

[@fsoto2900]

This is bigger than any of these people can imagine.

[@jasoncherry2508]

maybe they were filming "Gone in 62 seconds"? LOL

[@scoleman2620]

In less than 15 minutes,my question is why weren’t the police on scene in less than 15 minutes,there’s got to be a very sophisticated security system at that dealership going off immediately when the place was broken into

[@jeretso]

Police should be in Bethesda in a few minutes its a very expensive area. It was probably an inside job with crooks scouting the area for lack of cops.

[@dgrant7291]

And why oh why wouldn't ANYBODY put those apple trackers on such expensive vehicles...hell I would think trackers would be standard equipment of such vehicles..as in being the only way any insurance company would even insure them to start with. Corruption to the gills.

[@godbyone]

The police station is a mile from that dealership There’s is a few light s but cops can turn their flashing lights to go thru them get there in 3 min worst case and police probably driving near that dealership any ways

[@1967davethewave]

This looks like insurance fraud to me. The dealer probably sold the cars to thieves for just a few thousand dollars each and insured that they could get in and out with no problems. Then he turns it into insurance and voila', he makes a lot of money, probably gets the cars off his floor plan and very little work on his part. Did you see his "Thank You" at the end of the segment. He didn't really look all that happy.

[@BT-zw2ix]

@@jeretso Exactly!! A crooked dealer employee would failitate the theft and get some profit over the sale of the vehicles. As high end luxury car dealers usually have insurance, they'll get a compensation for their loss, beside a premium increase maybe. So, it's a win situation for the dealer on many levels.

[@user-eh5cr4or6k]

This really should be very easy for them to stop in its tracks, to ship a car out of the country you have to have a MSO short for manufacturer's certificate of origin. If a car is found in a container and the freight forwarder doesn't have a certified copy of the MSO he should immediately lose his license and ability to ship.

[@kenc2257]

Sure...but then they change their name, and are back in business in 2 shakes of a lamb's tail.

[@americansforhire5378]

Ok…. Nerd 😂

[@jaybreezy4711]

The port agents are in on it totally. I understand it’s hard to search every container but too much is getting through 😢

[@regenen]

It must be that polak jackass of a union leader of theirs. I hope the police starts an investigation soon!

[@hitts8928]

such a stupid financial decision owning a car in Baltimore 😂😂

[@T.Tuxedo]

Baltimore sure has changed since Edgar Allan Poe lived there.

[@revampted]

lol anyone seen the tiktok from africa, they show off the cars that just came in.

[@TheAllSeeingGuy]

This reminds me of when, late actor, Kenneth Michael Williams did a TV series called "Black Market" where he went to the streets & spoke to people involved in this enterprise at all levels. From the jackers, who were sometimes early teens, all the way to the shipyards & on to Africa. There were hundreds of nice vehicles from America, with Obama stickers on them, parked in fields in Zimbabwe awaiting there new "owners" at the end of the process. lol

[@mztokyo7630]

It was a great episode, good memory!

[@Dpoweroflittledrops]

I am happy to stumble upon this story though deeply embarrassed at being related to the recipient continent knowing full well these rides never came in clean.

[@BT-zw2ix]

Eastern Europe too

[@JustMike2791]

Nothing better than a handshake from a car dealer!

[@aw1078]

Get your reparations my brothas.

[@ceciliapetrowsky2572]

Why did I think the port people put the cars into the containers? How do thieves put cars in the containers and then fill out false paperwork? Wouldn’t the port require ID? So confusing!

[@taiwoidowu2854]

They might be working together. Who knows.

[@yoochoob]

Typically, the containers are loaded at warehouses away from the port. Then a truck will pick them up to drop off at the port they’ll be departing from.

[@berardoferrari]

how do you get out of the car when you drive it into the container?????

[@Automedon2]

@@berardoferrari maybe push it in

[@Automedon2]

@@yoochoob true, but they showed cars on forklifts

[@Coolman0893]

Dealership guy: "I couldn't believe it because like I said, these were long gone! You are a total life saver!" Me: "As a reward, can i keep one of them?" 😂

[@justincoleman7856]

As stupid as thieves are, you can do something called checking the steering wheel for fingerprints. Newer fingerprints are very fresh on a steering wheel & can provide clues as to who the suspects are.

[@bobmahnamahknob]

....and a 99¢ pair of jersey gloves from the gas station foiled your whole plan. This is organized crime. They PROBABLY have small details, like not leaving incriminating fu*king evidence everywhere, covered.

[@BT-zw2ix]

They usually wear sky masks and gloves. They are not that stupid too

[@theprofessional155]

Those gangs might have ties to some of the dictatorships or warlords in west Africa . This is how regimes like North Korea also have luxury cars.

[@papaj665]

Are you really so stupid to think they can’t just order a Mercedes from Germany?

[@truthmatterbyoladada1462]

Lies

[@bradchoi9679]

If this were a tv crime drama show, they would find the dealer let them take the cars so that he can claim insurance on cars that weren't selling! He didn't look that happy to see the stolen cars being returned! LOL!!!

[@dharmageek3732]

What about Seattle has anyone checked our port for such activity?

[@HelloAutoCarz]

Question is how come these high end cars are the easiest to steal?? What happened to the price tags and security that goes along with de price??

[@williamreilly5469]

Maybe the dealers are in on it..after All, they have insurance

[@ashruth9545]

People forget one big detail here Corruption is surely rampant at ports Look at how they put 3 cars in a container without fear They know how the system works...and they don't fear it

[@rupe53]

you forgot a few more details... crooks are usually stupid... and they can't check every container. Bottom line is a few will always get through.