The California Attorney General filed felony charges against eight people in connection with the theft of 19 vehicles throughout the U.S. with a combined value of more than $800,000.
The complaint, filed in Alameda County Superior Court by Attorney General Rob Bonta, alleges 40 felony charges including conspiracy, auto-theft, possession of stolen property and selling a vehicle with an altered VIN.
The California Department of Justice received a complaint referral from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which investigated the ring of eight people allegedly involved in a complex VIN alteration scheme. As part of the scheme, defendants allegedly obtained stolen vehicles, altered the VINs, re-registered the vehicles through the Alaska Department of Motor Vehicles, and then sold the stolen vehicles out of their Bay Area business.
The case is being prosecuted by DOJ’s Special Prosecutions Section, which investigates and prosecutes complex criminal cases.
Topics California Auto Fraud
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