{"id":283471,"date":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283471\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","slug":"hamilton-dealership-accused-of-being-involved-in-trafficking-of-stolen-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283471\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton dealership accused of being involved in trafficking of stolen vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person is facing more than a dozen charges in connection with the trafficking of stolen vehicles involving an auto dealership in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltonpolice.on.ca\/news\/project-big-cat-leads-to-major-recovery-of-stolen-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/hamiltonpolice.on.ca\/news\/project-big-cat-leads-to-major-recovery-of-stolen-vehicles\/\">In a news release on Friday<\/a>, Hamilton police revealed the results of its investigation dubbed \u201cProject Big Cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators determined that Bengal Auto, located near Kenilworth Avenue North and Barton Street East, had been allegedly involved in the trafficking of stolen vehicles over several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cStolen vehicles were fraudulently registered through the dealership, with vehicle identification numbers (VINs) cloned or altered to appear legitimate,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday, investigators executed several search warrants in Hamilton and, as a result, arrested a 30-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They\u2019ve also identified over 36 stolen vehicles worth $2.7 million, and of those, 23 have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man has been charged with 15 offences, including fraud, trafficking in property obtained by crime, possession of property obtained by crime, and using and making of forged documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information about the investigation to contact them at 905-546-3849 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is facing more than a dozen charges in connection with the trafficking of stolen vehicles involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-283471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}