Women arrested for catalytic converter theft on I-70
State Police arrested two Indianapolis women Saturday morning after they found them with catalytic converters that had been cut off abandoned vehicles.
Credit: Indiana State Police Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 12:06 AM EDT March 15, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS State Police arrested two Indianapolis women Saturday morning for allegedly stealing catalytic converters from disabled vehicles along Interstate 70.
Elizabeth Smith, 27, and Farrah Carpenter, 28, were taken to jail on preliminarily charges of felony theft and criminal mischief after troopers found them on the side of I-70 with a reciprocating saw and several catalytic converters in their Jeep.
According to a media release from ISP, dispatchers were monitoring INDOT traffic cameras just after 6:30 a.m. and reported suspicious activity around a vehicle on the shoulder of I-70 westbound near the 78.7 mile marker between Holt Road and Harding