🚨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…