A shipping container holding a stolen Toyota RAV 4, discovered by police at the Port of Felixstowe, UK, on May 21.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/BloombergUK Car Theft Crisis Pits Manufacturers Against High-Tech Gangs
A growing number of stolen vehicles are being shipped overseas by technologically sophisticated criminal groups.
To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport.
Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household goods,” but to police officer Adam Gibson, something didn’t add up. So workers broke into the container.