{"id":453661,"date":"2026-09-04T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453661\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:22:08","slug":"santa-monica-police-arrest-3-suspected-catalytic-converter-thieves-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453661\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Monica police arrest 3 suspected catalytic converter thieves \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were arrested on suspicion of burglary and other crimes after police found a jack and power tools commonly used to steal catalytic converters in their vehicle during a traffic stop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/santa-monica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, a Santa Monica police officer located a vehicle on Pearl Street near 11th Street without its lights on and a black shirt covering the rear license plate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officer conducted a traffic stop in the 1100 block of Pearl Street. The driver stated she did not have a driver\u2019s license. The officer saw metal tools in the rear seat and, with the driver\u2019s consent, searched the vehicle and located a hydraulic jack, reciprocating power saw, power drill and additional tools, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Once the black shirt covering the plate was removed, officers discovered the vehicle also had expired registration and no front license plate displayed.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the equipment located and other circumstances of the stop, officers suspected the occupants were preparing to commit catalytic converter thefts, police told NBC4 Investigates.<\/p>\n<p>The three people inside the vehicle were arrested on suspicion of burglary, possession of burglary tools, conspiracy and other crimes. One of the passengers had an outstanding warrant for a robbery issued by the Los Angeles Police Department, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Catalytic converters are components of a vehicle\u2019s exhaust system that contain high-value metals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were arrested on suspicion of burglary and other crimes after police found a jack and power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[348,48,52,51,734,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-453661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}