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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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!
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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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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. 🙄
@@johnfoltz8183 They did something that could be considered financially dangerous. Therefore, most of the car theft victims don't care about the criminals' feelings.
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.
@@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 ☺️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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
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.
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?
@@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. 🤷
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤷
@@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.
@@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
@@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...
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
@@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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
This is quite Ironic, they should ship the criminal to that destination instead of those luxury cars, I have a great feeling that would fit perfectly there rather than the cars the are illegally importing.
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.
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 - 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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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
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.
....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.
Next time you're driving on the Bay Bridge, look over at the driver next to you, that person might be crazy maniac and about to do something dangerous. I had that experience going east on the Bay Bridge off ramp in Oakland, some crazy person in a truck with the rear window broken out got in front of me, braked check me swerved and wouldn't let me go around him, The best solution is to keep driving and ignore them, eventually either you or the crazy person will reach your destination.
This was such a random commmet on this video I’m from sf and the bay bridge connects the rich and poor island together all the poor people wake up early to cross the bridge road rage and get to the master or kings side of the island.
It's not a challenge, It's an option just like Euros Dollars. The world have a choice instead of US Dollars. US dollars will still be around unless you don't import from USA or anyone want US Dollars to trade with.
Stocks looked to rebound Friday to close out a rough first few days in August, as the jobs report's release takes center stage and an earnings-heavy calendar continues. I've heard testimonies of people accruing over $250k this red period. What measures can I take to ensure this?
@@alanfuller7176It's more challenging to create a strong financial portfolio, so I advise you to get help from a professional. You can then receive strategies that are specifically suited to your long-term objectives and financial aspirations.
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You need to tighten up your security measures. It is too easy to steal it out of your front door. Get an electric 7000v fence. They are using them now everywhere. No one will mess with that.
As of today the dealer gets his money faster back from insurance before he sells that square crap for 200k. I can tell you he was not happy when he saw his car back at the dealership.
That's a base model G wagon for $200k. Nothing fancy on it. They will sell it for around $195k because it has a few miles on it & it was stolen. They will get it too.
They deserve it. How much is a security guard? 10$/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.
This is one of what some call a "victimless crime" since nobody was hurt physically but its still a crime and the perps will NEVER be caught. Low risk, high reward. Always wondered why I saw so many fancy cars in impoverished areas of Africa and other countries.
I had a friend working for the Port of Balto back in the early 80's and they were unloading a ship and the dogs went crazy. They found a container of cars painted like British police cars stuffed full of drugs hoping they would just float past security because they looked real.
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.
That is Canada all over total APATHY about everything except what they can get for free from the government !!!!
Wow just so disgusting!!
In Canada only 10% of containers are searched
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!
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.
Somebody is paying the bills to ship these containers. How hard can it be to go after the money?
What, with the way laws are designed to protect the moneyed, that should be a breeze, right?
Money probably came from a biden off shore banking account & if the fbi asshos are involved they ain't saying a word.
They have acces to the information via banks. It is like they let the criminals without consenquences.
@@bobmahnamahknobhuh?
@@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?
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.
I totally agree with what you said. NO WAY are a lot of people NOT aware of something this large in scale.
They don’t get pay enough to care.
That as well.@@The_North0
Automate all that shit.
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!
Sad how your new vehicle is tracked everywhere you go but thieves can still get away with stealing it!
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist2Jesus won’t save your car from getting away lol
10 year Mandatory sentence for each car stolen
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.
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.
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!
@@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!
The authorities sized it in December of 2021 ?
Explain what SIZE was it - Small - Medium - Large or Extra large
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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.
Sounds like an inside job….they need to investigate the dealers bank accts and phone records.
There’s a lot more scrutiny on things coming into the US than leaving.
Amen to that
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.
There you go being all logical.🙂
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.
Who's going to check all these thousand of containers each day? It's not that easy without man power
@@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.
Probably done through shell companies with no links to the organised gangs that operate the theft and export of the stolen cars.
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.
@@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.
And as usual, no arrests were made on either end of the operation.
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
@@pro_154 sounds like you're already on your way in becoming Public Enemy #1 huh?
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.
arrests are now considered racist
You must be a cop😂😂@@evilfingers4302
They need to shut down the port or change policy to shipping any vehicle. This is unacceptable.
For every container they find there are a thousand they miss. Great job 👏🏻
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.
Yeah, too many cars...arrangements made in advance.
Why is it so complicated. Just arrest whomever filed the paperwork to ship the cars.
they probably used some BS LLC. corp sometimes with no name! just cash
It's normal to use brokers for shipping. I guess that's the place to start.
@@dr5290 I wouldn't say there's no way to trace the layers. It's just much more difficult.
@@dr5290US can't intervene in Delaware ?
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.
It’s clear that they don’t want to catch the criminals.
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. 🙄
black follks, we are immune from the law let our people tell it.
@@johnfoltz8183 They did something that could be considered financially dangerous. Therefore, most of the car theft victims don't care about the criminals' feelings.
@@johnfoltz8183even if the criminals decide to sue, there needs to be proof in order to win the lawsuit.
one word.. "Corruption" that's why this happens. It's obvious someone is getting $$$ at those ports.
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.
they knew the stolen cars were at the port...
That criminal enterprises are getting this big and this complex...shows we have a serious problem with our laws and enforcement.
The United States is turning into a third world country.
Govt gets their share
Diversity is our strength 🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵
Special privilege
@@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 ☺️
Look no further than the port employees and customs agents.
No doubt people at the port are being paid off to let them slip through.
But why is it NOT possible to arrest those who paid to ship those containers???
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.
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.
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.
I don't know why a Mercedes dealer in Bethesda with millions in inventory wouldn't have security monitoring service. Pennywise, pound foolish.
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.
He was not happy when he saw his car back at the dealership because the insurance Co just denied his claim.
@@giacomu1 Absolutely!
@@giacomu1 Yeah now he has to sell the car at a loss because it was stolen. He's definitely not happy
Has to be an insurance scam for inventory that won't move.
This has been happening for many, many years at the ports.
Facts since the 80s. Gone in 60 seconds is real lol
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..
Didn't Tony Soprano have something to do with this?
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.
That is ridiculous! Employees at the port are in on this!
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
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.
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This is literally The Wire season 2 lmao
And most likely the dealership!
The timing is impeccable, and the narrator’s voice and diction are spot-on!
That car dealer doesnt look much happy when they found his "lost" car :)
Pleaseeeee lock them up. How are they shipping with no identification?
They should be put in a container and shipped to Africa.
@@patmcbride9853 🤣🤣🤣
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?
No no no, this guys came for reparation money and couldn't wait any longer and decided to get cars instead reparation.
@@giacomu1 🤣🤣🤣
Corruption at its finest
what do you mean? are you saying that government is involved in this stolen car process?
@@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. 🤷
White people complaining about theft in a stolen country always makes me laugh
@@Soul_Flow_ No, the shipping company and docks staff are in on it
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.
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.
That part............
The thieves should be sent back in different containers...!!!
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.
Stacked like cord wood. I bet we can fit a heII of a lot more than three per container.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 how come no arrests !!
such a stupid financial decision owning a car in Baltimore 😂😂
Baltimore sure has changed since Edgar Allan Poe lived there.
It’s funny how they don’t arrest anybody. Shut the goddamn port.
They all in on it… including the dealerships!
Remember brand new fords having cocaine stored in the doors heading for the dealerships??
Probably means billions of dollars in damage to the US economy to shut the port
"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.
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. 🤷
@@HelloAutoCarzthis man gets it. And in the south dealerships work with cartels so when new cars come across the borders they can transfer drugs
That guys dealership must have the best security system ever😂
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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...
@@ligmasack9038 sold hundreds, none of your statements are facts in my experience
They will not be selling that G-wagon at a "significant discount," even delusional to say the least.
That one is probably going to the head kingpin for his personal use.
I hope that diversion will be noted on its CarFax
That is giving the dealership the headache of deaing with a chopped up vehicle. Wouldve been better never seeing that vehicle again.
Thank you WJLA TV.
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.
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..
They made the choice to enter the game.
The whole dealership universe is a strange and awful place.
Only the worst become King
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.
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.
Exactly, follow the money trail.
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.
@@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.”
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
Not with only 100 agents
Maybe they go to other countries first and get transferred to another boat and shipped again.
What if the agents are being bribed too? They could be in it too
And so far no one still hasn't gotten arrested
Insurance insurance insurance insurance sure he's happy he's got him back
Nikkas really livin that gta life
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.
My Nigerian ppl are very busy there in USA 😢
Your Nigerian people came for reparation money as slaves or related to slaves and almost left with a G class, not bad.
Yet, the state of Maryland will find a way to fine and penalize people for not having insurance on a vehicle, stolen or otherwise.
Thats easy revenue and that's all police departments are really are interested in.
We need to get tough on crime again in this country or this may be the end of the United States.
well Maryland is a money gouging hellscape after all.
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?
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You don't have to check them all, but definitely check all of those heading to West Africa.
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.
$200,000…no car is worth that kind of $$$.
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??
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.
You have to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the technology that comes with the car you bought
Bc there’s technology to counter technology.
@@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.
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.
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.
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."
That's dirty, wow! Swindlers and Thieves, lol and smh.
Episode?
Where can I see this ?
@@cesarsanchez7768 Disney Plus
Give police the authority to stop, frisk, and pop up check points.
*The port workers are getting big money to be quiet. I bet some of them have Benz too.*
You mean to tell me none of them have tracking devices
That dealer wasn't happy to see those cars return. He just lost his insurance payout.
Exactly. Now he's got to try and sell a scratched up car.. the forklift is not gentle on vehicles
@@vittoriovuocolo2438 I would buy a stolen G wagon if it was brand new.
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
@@vincem2759Lmaoo fr hand me the keys🫴🏽
No cap dealer looked salty it was found hah
So much for the dealer's insurance fraud hustle
😂😂😂BINGO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Hope the insurance company grills their asses and then drop them.
Insurance only pays what they paid for the vehicle. And then insurance rates go up. Where's the profit?
Thru could have scheduled the vehicles for a certain amount. There's their profit...
Corruption. It's everywhere.
This is quite Ironic, they should ship the criminal to that destination instead of those luxury cars, I have a great feeling that would fit perfectly there rather than the cars the are illegally importing.
Fingerprint them and arrest all of them.
When it doesn't pay to hire the usual suspects
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.
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?
@@auntiem873 All of them. They know these are stolen vehicles.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
No one arrested nor will anyone be arrested.
Let's defend the police...we don't need any of them...sure~
"as many as we have to" lol, my shift is over, clock out
Salesman didn’t seem happy abt getting the cars back😂 he probably would’ve preferred the insurance money😂
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.
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.
Sure...but then they change their name, and are back in business in 2 shakes of a lamb's tail.
Ok…. Nerd 😂
Dang Africa 😂. I ship my car to Hawaii and had to give copy of registration, title and insurance wtf
If your car is worth a lot you need a real time gps tracking device. Hidden and with it's own power source.
These dealers don’t care. They already know insurance gonna cover the lost.
@@gravityent9943 Insurance only covers actual loss. And insurance goes up. Nobody wants theft.
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.
Great news & reporting!
It can’t be that hard to disable them while they sit at the showroom and track them once stolen. SMH
exactly, some other hidden parties must be involved and benefitted in someway and keep this theft happening
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.
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhhoh you are racist 😲
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh 😂😂 blacks
He just didn't expect it. Not everyone thinks we live in an uncivilized society
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
I didn’t know that dealership sold parts for riding lawnmowers!
Lame...
@@SunnyDiegoProduction they don’t? I bought them for my Mercedes, duh.
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.😂
Interesting social experiment. 100 percent effective.
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.
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!
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??
Maybe the dealers are in on it..after All, they have insurance
U know damn well the dealership doesn't want them back after being reported stolen. 😉
how
@@alainportant6412insurance payout. Now they have to sell the stolen cars for cheap
A $400,000 car? I I think they would want that back.
@@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
In 2023 they don’t have sophisticated x-ray machines that scan containers automatically 🤔
Of course the thief drives a charger😂😂😂. And of course it’s Baltimore.
"Diversity is our stremphh"
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!
They might be working together. Who knows.
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.
how do you get out of the car when you drive it into the container?????
@@berardoferrari maybe push it in
@@yoochoob true, but they showed cars on forklifts
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
It was a great episode, good memory!
A simple electronic tracking device on each car would greatly reduce this problem.
My local convenient store has a better security system than that Mercedes dealership.
Nicolas Cage! Gone In 60 Seconds Job lol
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
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.
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.
....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.
They usually wear sky masks and gloves. They are not that stupid too
Next time you're driving on the Bay Bridge, look over at the driver next to you, that person might be crazy maniac and about to do something dangerous. I had that experience going east on the Bay Bridge off ramp in Oakland, some crazy person in a truck with the rear window broken out got in front of me, braked check me swerved and wouldn't let me go around him, The best solution is to keep driving and ignore them, eventually either you or the crazy person will reach your destination.
Whatttttttttt......!?!?
My advice don't drive anywhere near Oakland, else you'll encounter the BLACK epicenter of about 95% of the crime in this fucking country.
What is a bay bridge?
@@dogsense3773 It's a bridge in San Francisco.
This was such a random commmet on this video I’m from sf and the bay bridge connects the rich and poor island together all the poor people wake up early to cross the bridge road rage and get to the master or kings side of the island.
That dealer didn’t want those cars back 🙄
Why is no one getting arrested. This is outrageous
It's not a challenge, It's an option just like Euros Dollars. The world have a choice instead of US Dollars. US dollars will still be around unless you don't import from USA or anyone want US Dollars to trade with.
Where would the USA be without her magical money trees that make money doesn't really exist?
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straight out of a movie
This is discriminating against criminals!!! Those vehicles indentify as NOT stolen
Stories like this are why I love my 24-year-old SUV.
You need to tighten up your security measures. It is too easy to steal it out of your front door. Get an electric 7000v fence. They are using them now everywhere. No one will mess with that.
After watching all the mafia movies and shows, I wonder if people are paid to look the other way and then just file a claim with their insurer.
Dealers are clearly in on this.
The port agents are in on it totally. I understand it’s hard to search every container but too much is getting through 😢
It must be that polak jackass of a union leader of theirs. I hope the police starts an investigation soon!
There’s no tracking Devices on a 200k car…. Lmao
My aunts Highlander just got stolen in Waldorf. I'm SURE that its headed to Africa.
lol anyone seen the tiktok from africa, they show off the cars that just came in.
Well, the dealership can't sell that one for $200k. That's not new anymore!
As of today the dealer gets his money faster back from insurance before he sells that square crap for 200k. I can tell you he was not happy when he saw his car back at the dealership.
That's a base model G wagon for $200k. Nothing fancy on it. They will sell it for around $195k because it has a few miles on it & it was stolen. They will get it too.
Vehicles being trafficked... my heart breaks for these vehicles
Which is sad because alot of those vehicles will end up gathering dust in some drug lord or oligarchs warehouse.
😂
Gone in 60 seconds vibes
They deserve it. How much is a security guard? 10$/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.
This is one of what some call a "victimless crime" since nobody was hurt physically but its still a crime and the perps will NEVER be caught. Low risk, high reward. Always wondered why I saw so many fancy cars in impoverished areas of Africa and other countries.
Victimless crime is like smoking pot in your bedroom. Stealing has a victim. There is no requirement of violence to meet.
I had a friend working for the Port of Balto back in the early 80's and they were unloading a ship and the dogs went crazy. They found a container of cars painted like British police cars stuffed full of drugs hoping they would just float past security because they looked real.
@@flavoratory Sorry for your stupidity but Balto, is the official abbreviation for Baltimore.