Second Arrest In Car Theft Ring Case - WOWT
On December 30, 2014, WOWT reported on a car theft ring that operated out of a warehouse near 28th and B Streets, off highway 75. Our reporter was standing in front of a building at that location with L&K Iron and Scrap Metal’s logo. Police records do not indicate that the car theft ring operated at the L&K Iron and Scrap Metal building. Instead, records show that the alleged car theft ring operated from an adjacent building that L&K leased to the man arrested in connection with the ring. WOWT would like to clarify that the police have not implicated L&K Iron and Scrap Metal in the car theft ring. Timothy Egan, 61, operates Egan Business Consulting, and he is the man behind a car theft operation that now has him sitting in jail. Investigators tell WOWT 6 News that Egan was buying salvaged vehicles and rebuilding them with parts from stolen vehicles. For example, he would take a Ford F250 and improve it by swapping out stolen parts from a Ford F350. Just before Christmas police found the stolen parts and stolen cars at several locations. Here, they were able to find parts of cars that had vehicle identification numbers matching at least 4 stolen Ford trucks from Omaha and Council Bluffs. Source: www.wowt.com
