Unlike previous carjackings, in which thieves would strip vehicles for parts or sell them in other states, the recent wave perplexed law enforcement officials because almost all appeared to be done by thrill-seeking young men who would steal the cars for a few hours, drive them around and then abandon them.
Sergeant Reagan and other mechanics, stripped parts from vehicles that broke down and performed arcane repairs through the night, mostly accomplished with sledgehammers.
Then strip the vehicle identification number, or VIN, from the dashboard.
The next morning, Barnes and Jackson went to strip the vehicle, but they were run off by a farmer who had come to the pasture to feed his hogs.
With such a design, you can strip the vehicle of its most dangerous, movables parts, such as the wings, the tail and elevators.
He noted that guns and other offensive armaments had been stripped from the vehicle.
Tornadoes killed two people, destroyed homes, overturned vehicles and stripped the bark from trees as they churned across Oklahoma, part of a strong series of storms that hit the plains on Monday.
In addition, stolen not recovered data will fail to capture profit-motivated vehicle theft where a vehicle is recovered, as may be the case when a stolen vehicle is stripped for its parts, with only a shell being recovered.
For some well-armed men here, war has been good business; they stripped international aid agencies of vehicles, radios, food and cash.
Early investigations found that the licence plate had been switched and the vehicle identification number stripped from the dashboard.
