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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County is taking enactment against catalytic converter thieves with a projected caller ordinance.
If passed, it would marque it a misdemeanor for anyone caught carrying 1 without the due paperwork.
Under existent authorities law, drivers tin person up to 8 catalytic converters successful their vehicles. With this ordinance, radical caught with a detached catalytic converter and without the due paperwork proving they ain it tin get a misdemeanor.
“We unrecorded successful a authorities wherever the enacted authorities makes it hard for america connected the region level, so, we connected the section level person to enact ordinances to woody with the crime,” said Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld.
If passed adjacent month, anyone recovered with a detached catalytic converter successful Fresno County without impervious of ownership could look a $1,000 good and imaginable jailhouse time.
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni says this would springiness powerfulness backmost to his deputies, who often person to fto thieves spell adjacent though they cognize the converters are stolen.
“Believe it oregon not, it has happened. They don't person capable fig of catalytic converters, truthful our hands are tied. This volition assistance untie our hands,” said Zanoni.
Several counties and cities, including the City of Fresno, person already passed akin ordinances.
Daryl Terrell is 1 of respective radical liable for bringing the question forward.
He lives successful Riverside County and has made it his extremity to get akin restrictions successful each region successful the state.
“Just similar you, we person a working-class community. We person agriculture, and a batch of time, radical beryllium connected their cars for their livelihood, truthful erstwhile idiosyncratic steals their catalytic converter, that puts them successful a hindrance due to the fact that what if their security doesn't screen it?” said Terrell.
