15 catalytic converters stolen from parked vehicles at METRO Park & Ride in SE Houston

The 15 victims discovered when the bus dropped them off after work, based on the METRO Police Division.

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Mike Cervantes mentioned he simply acquired his new truck about two weeks in the past and hasn’t even made a cost on it. Now, he mentioned it’ll be months earlier than he can drive his truck once more.

“I seemed on the automotive parked subsequent to me and her automotive was making the identical noise. Each of us knew one thing was improper,” Cervantes mentioned.

He mentioned he hopped out of his truck and seemed beneath.

“I acquired down right here and I might see the place it was reduce … It’s a fairly clean-cut. They’ve good instruments,” Cervantes mentioned.

He mentioned he parks on the Park & Experience on daily basis and takes the METRO downtown to shorten his commute. He and the opposite victims had been caught off-guard after they acquired to their autos on Monday.

“And everybody … you’ll be able to hear all through the car parking zone … the mufflers going and everybody simply form of reacting, ‘Oh, my God.’ Getting out of the automotive, trying on the autos, seeing the injury,” Cervantes mentioned.

METRO Police Chief Vera Bumpers mentioned they’re investigating.

“It has been a difficulty similar to it has throughout the town and throughout the U.S.,” Bumpers mentioned.

Cervantes mentioned he parked subsequent to a digicam hoping it will assist, nevertheless it clearly did not.

“We do random searches of the cameras. Some are randomly all of the tons paying consideration. However we all know that when you find yourself one lot one thing may very well be occurring at one other lot,” Bumpers mentioned.

Bumpers mentioned they’re different methods and will probably be growing patrols within the tons. Within the meantime, Cervantes is upset he’s caught with a model new truck he cannot even drive.

“It is actually irritating as a result of now you must cope with the effort of getting it repaired. There’s a big backlog for the converters. It is two to a few months,” Cervantes mentioned.

Cervantes filed a police report however mentioned he doesn’t really feel secure parking at that Park & Experience anymore. As an alternative, he’ll drive his automotive downtown to work. Happily, he mentioned his insurance coverage will cowl the associated fee he’ll simply must pay a deductible.

METRO police investigators are asking folks to report something suspicious.