Car owners sometimes find, to their dismay, that their catalytic converters have been stolen because of the platinum inside. How much platinum is that, anyway?

Yanquee Rodriguez, also known as “Yankster Rodriguez,” 28, of West Hartford, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of ...

The Troy School District in Joliet, Illinois has been hit by thieves cutting catalytic converters from school buses before.

A Hutchinson man is one of four individuals who are currently facing federal charges related to an alleged catalytic converter theft operation valued at $21 million dollars. The charges filed on ...

Catalytic converter thefts peaked in the U.S. in 2022. Antitheft measures are behind the drop in these thefts.

If your family’s car runs on gasoline, it has a device called a catalytic converter. Inside this device is the catalyst, which is a piece of metal — usually platinum, palladium, or rhodium. These ...