As gas prices continue to set record-highs, some Los Angeles County residents are claiming thieves are siphoning gas out of their cars.
Carrier claims that someone stole a quarter tank of gas out of his minivan. The father said he can’ afford to lose any more gas and hopes that parking his van closer to a security light will deter thieves.“I was dropping off groceries to a family member and when I returned to my car I turned it on and that’s when I got the alert that I had low fuel,” said Mena. “It’s hard, gas prices are high…heartbreaking.
“There have been reports of people siphoning gas directly out of the tanks putting a hose down into the gas tank, sucking out,” he said. “We are also hearing reports of people drilling right in the gas tanks, taking gas out of cars directly.” However, according to Lt. Bill Grisafe from the Pasadena Police Department, his officers are not seeing an increase in these thefts. “Gas prices [are at] a national, historical high and it is a concern that gas is a commodity that people need [or] want,” he said. “And they don’t want to pay the price.”Grisafe said that modern tanks are fitted with special anti-siphoning devices but thieves continue to find ways around it.
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