Police bust $500,000 auto theft ring in South Philadelphia

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Friday, September 18, 2015
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Philadelphia police busted a car theft ring reportedly worth half a million dollars.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Police say they have busted a major car theft operation.



Action News was in South Philadelphia as police seized more than a dozen cars and crews loaded them into a tractor-trailer.



The seizures followed a raid late Thursday night at a warehouse in the 800 block of East Oregon Avenue.



Sources say it was the culmination of a two-month-long investigation.



Officers arrested three people.



Investigators believe the vehicles, worth an estimated $500,000, were about to be shipped to Liberia.



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