Holmdel Home Raided: Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Bust
The dude had a necklace custom made.
Dateline, New Jersey.
From the “Pride Cometh Before the Fall” file comes this.
One of the heads of a national catalytic converter thievery crime ring was just busted in Holmdel, New Jersey. According to NBC News the feds raided the 1.7 million dollar home of Navin Khanna; whose nickname is: “Lovin”.
One of the things that got federal agents interested in Lovin is when he posted a picture on his Instagram of a new piece of custom jewelry he had made for himself.
It was a hand-made necklace in the shape of a catalytic converter. That’s a very specific item to have made to hang around your neck. Fed prolly thought, “hey that’s got to be a homage to the thing that has made this guy so rich: stolen catalytic converters. Let’s have a look into him.”
Why are people stealing catalytic converters and what exactly are they? They’re the thing that’s underneath your car, part of the exhaust system. The job of the catalytic converter is to remove a lot of the bad pollution that the combustion engine creates. They’re filled with precious metals like platinum, palladium and rhodium. It’s become such a problem that some mechanics are offering a service to etch an ID number (like the car’s VIN number) in your catalytic converter.
Lovin is just one of 21 defendants who were taken into custody as part of this nationwide crackdown on catalytic converter thefts.
