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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: How Canada became a car theft capital of the world
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:35:48 -0400
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Logan LaFreniere woke up one October morning in 2022 to an empty driveway.

His brand new Ram Rebel truck was missing.

His security camera captured two hooded men breaking into the pickup in 
the dead of night outside of his Milton, Ontario home, and driving it 
away with ease.

A few months later, that very same truck appeared on a website of 
vehicles for sale in Ghana, an ocean and some 8,500km away.
“The dead giveaway was the laptop holder that we had installed in the 
back of the driver’s seat for my son, and in it was garbage that he had 
put in there,” Mr LaFreniere told the BBC.

That same clutter was visible in photos of the car listing, he said.
“There was no doubt in my mind that it was my vehicle.”

Mr LaFreniere’s story is hardly unique. In 2022, more than 105,000 cars 
were stolen in Canada - about one car every five minutes. Among the 
victims was Canada’s very own federal justice minister, whose 
government-issued Toyota Highlander XLE was taken twice by thieves.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy79dq2n093o



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