Beware if you are traveling in Canada. Unfortunately the road service truck hauling your car down the road might be
taking it to a freighter destined for overseas.

Giro got the bad news three hours after parking in a Montreal hotel’s garage. He noticed he had forgotten his reading glasses and went to retrieve them from his truck, a 2006 Toyota Tundra that he had just bought for about $28,000 in January.

It was gone.

“I went through the whole parking garage because I just couldn’t believe it,” Giro said.

He called police and reported the theft. Detectives told him his truck most likely would follow a common path for vehicles snagged by organized car theft rings operating in Canadian cities. It would soon be packed into a shipping container and loaded onto a freighter bound for some distant port — often in the Third World.
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Northern New England residents have lost about 100 vehicles to Canadian thieves in the last 18 months, Jordan said. Many are late-model and expensive makes, with their average value about $30,000, she said.

Detective Sgt. Robert Dimatteo of the Montreal Police Department, the lead investigator in the theft of Giro’s truck, said methods used by the car-theft rings range from smashing a window and hot-wiring the engine to using a tow-truck or high-tech tools designed to defeat car alarms.”

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