The representative of the New Progressive Party Yashira Lebron and his family were one of the victims of several catalytic thefts that were reported while they were enjoying the artist’s concert Raw Alejandro in the early hours of Sunday at the Hiram Bithorn stadium, in Hato Rey.
“As soon as we got in the vehicle, my husband started the car. My god that was such a horrible noise like a truck and we were all like in shock and I said: ‘My God, is it the catalyst?’… because it’s what’s been in the media lately, that they’re stealing. As soon as it turned on, the noise was horrible, we thought about it ”Lebrón told The new day about how they found out about the theft of this piece.
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Lebrón, who was with his two children, said that he parked, for a cost of $5, on the grounds of the sports complex. According to the Police, thefts were also recorded in the parking lot of the Plaza Las Américas shopping center.
In addition to the representative, three other people filed a complaint of this nature, the Uniformada indicated. The first theft was reported at 1:59 am by a Bayamón resident. In the second case, the victim, also from the aforementioned municipality, reported that someone had appropriated the catalytic converter from her car while she was parked in the shopping center. At about 3:11 am, the complaint for the third robbery arrived, this time by a person from Rincón.
According to the police report, all the catalysts belonged to Mitsubishi Outlander buses, the same model as the Lebrón family.
The legislator’s case was handled by the San Juan Municipal Police and a team from Technical Services, who unsuccessfully admitted to collect fingerprints and, in turn, took photographs.
“We had to wait for the Technical Services for the prints because, apparently, there is already a suspicious person,” said the legislator.
Need for greater security
Although he was grateful that it was only a robbery and not an assault, he insisted that the solution should be to increase security in these types of events where thousands of people gather, many of them with their families.
When the legislator was heading out of the parking lot, owned by the Municipality of San Juan, the security and collection booth was already closed, she said.
“We have to see how we can prevent. Greater monitoring or security, see how to work with the promoters, establish the greatest security in the contracts. The Municipal Police (of San Juan) It can’t keep up, I was directing the traffic flow”said Lebrón, who took about two hours to process the complaint.
“At least, we are from Bayamón, which is relatively close, but my heart broke for the girls who were next to us who were from Rincón, they were going to Rincón, but they were desperate because they didn’t know what to do,” she added. the representative of District 8, who arrived at her home in the same bus from which the piece was stolen.
“It was a scandal, we couldn’t go over 40 miles per hour. It is unfortunate, it is desperate that one can go out with the family and that, when one goes out, one finds this situation “he pointed out.
This medium tried to communicate with Rauw Alejandro’s team to issue statements about these events, but at the moment, they have not responded.
What is a catalyst?
The catalyst “is part of the car’s emission control and is essential to minimize the pollutants emitted by the car into the environment,” explained in a past interview with this medium, the Mech-Tech professor and mechanic, Keneth de Jesús .
He added that “it is mainly built on a ceramic panel with thousands of microconductors, these walls of these microconductors are lined with platinum, palladium and rhodium.”
The metals found in the catalysts also trade very well on the market. According to data provided by the Police, an ounce of rhodium is valued at more than $13,000. Each catalyst can contain about two grams of this material, which is a small fraction of an ounce (28 grams).