Ewing man charged with stealing 7 vehicles in a week using a tow truck

🚨Police say a man used a tow truck to steal 7 vehicles in just one week in Trenton

🚨Vehicles were picked up by a tow truck and taken away

🚨The stolen vehicles were allegedly taken straight to a scrapyard and crushed

TRENTON — A man was charged with stealing vehicles in a rather unusual way over the course of a week in March.

In each case, surveillance footage caught a tow truck backing up to a vehicle and towing it away without the owner’s permission, according to Trenton police.

The vehicle was then towed to a scrapyard, where it was crushed.

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Investigators said that Walter Mason, 45, of Ewing, used his licensed tow truck to steal a total of seven vehicles between March 6 and March 12 in the same way, according to police. Investigators confirmed that the vehicles had not been repossessed or towed because of parking violations…

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