2023-11-16 20:36:54
Canadian border agents intercepted 72 stolen vehicles coming from Quebec and Ontario on Monday before they left the country and were resold abroad.
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Agents from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) then handed over these vehicles to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the CBSA announced Thursday in a press release.
Among these 72 vehicles, 54 came from Ontario and 18 from Quebec, for a total value of $5.6 million. An investigation is underway.
“The Canada Border Services Agency works closely with police services, port authorities, insurance companies and insurance fraud and theft associations to ensure border security and counter “export of stolen vehicles,” said Annie Beauséjour, Director General, Quebec Region, Canada Border Services Agency.
As of November 13, 2023, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) intercepted 1,038 vehicles stolen for export to Montreal. An average of 24 stolen vehicles have been intercepted and handed over to the SPVM each week since January 1, 2023, detailed the CBSA.
AND AT YOUR HOME ?
Is your municipality often the target of car thieves?
Find out on this map compiled by our Investigation Office, which allows you to locate down to the street, in certain cities, where thousands of vehicles have been stolen in Quebec since the start of the year.
Municipality (number of flights)
Number of flights to the same address
Methodology
This map of vehicle thefts in Quebec covers the year 2023, from January 1 to a date between June 30 and October 12, depending on the city.
The data comes from the Sûreté du Québec, the police service of the City of Montreal, the city of Laval, the city of Longueuil, the police service of the City of Gatineau, the police service of the city of Quebec , from the police service of the city of Lévis, from the police service of Sherbrooke, from the city of Blainville, from the police service of Châteauguay, from the police service from the city of Mascouche, from the city of Granby, from the city of Trois-Rivières, the police department of the city of Bromont, the police department of Lac des Deux-Montagnes, the police department of Memphrémagog, the police department of the city of Saint-Eustache, the department of police of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the city of Repentigny, the city of Mirabel, and Équité Association. Some were obtained through access to information.
Note that municipalities may have included vehicles such as motorcycles, trucks or boats in their balance sheet. As for location data, it was transmitted to us in different forms: postal code, street corner, street or neighborhood.
Data compilation: Nora T. Lamontagne and Philippe Langlois, Bureau of Investigation
Last October, the show JE spoke of nearly 1,300 vehicles stolen each month by networks of thieves, just in Quebec. The report also shed light on the well-oiled mechanism of these networks, by giving the floor to a former vehicle exporter who explained how it is easy to smuggle hundreds of stolen cars through the port of Montreal, under the noses of the authorities.
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