By Hawke Fracassa / The Detroit News

The streets of Warren were like a scene from an action movie Tuesday, complete
with car chases, crashes and a foot pursuit that ended with a woman being tackled.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the incident and are being held in the
city jail. They are expected to be arraigned in 37th District Court in Warren today
on charges of stealing a vehicle, Warren Police Sgt. Jim Hart said. It all started about
3 p.m. when the owner of the stolen vehicle, a 33-year-old Macomb Township man,
left his keys in his gray 1990 Chevrolet Blazer while he went into the Warren Market
at 28069 Mound to buy batteries. When the man, who police declined to identify,
came out of the store less than a minute later he saw a man and a woman driving off
in his vehicle, Hart said. He didn't wait for police and chased the couple in his vehicle.
"He flagged down the passer-by and said, 'Hey, chase that Blazer,' " Hart said. The
driver chased the Blazer south on Mound until the it crashed into a white van near 11 Mile.
The suspects jumped out of the Blazer and ran, Hart said. The Blazer's owner chased
the couple and tackled the 23year-old woman from Warren in the median. The man, a
26-year-old from Sterling Heights, ran down Bernice Street into a subdivision, where he
hid. Police found him about a half hour later, crouched between two houses.

Stolen Vehicles

From: Jeffrey Jones, CEAR, [email protected] Category: Car Distribution
Date: 20 May 1998 Comments You've just completed a study of stolen
vehicles in Central & Eastern Europe. What are some of the key findings
of your study?

Re: Stolen Vehicles

From: Elaine Hardy Category: Car Distribution Date: 21 May 1998

Comments

I am limited in answering this question because of the sensitivity of the subject
and sponsor restrictions However, what I can say is that all is not what it
seems and this is due to definitions. What is a vehicle and what is theft have
different meanings in different countries and this has created enormous distortions
in the official statistics. What has emerged is that due to definitions, it is most
probable that vehicle theft is grossly underestimated both in Western and Eastern
Europe. However, if we were to accept the statistics being offered by the various
authorities, then the average percentage of vehicles stolen as a proportion of parc
would be 1% in Western Europe and 0.6% in the major Central European countries
with the recovery rates averaging 70% in Western Europe compared to only 40%
in Central and Eastern Europe. This could well be due to the reason for theft.
Western Europe has a significant problem with joy-riders, whereas one could
hypothesise that there is an active market for "used" cars in Central and Eastern
Europe due to low motorisation. We know that "vehicles" stolen in these countries
are generally cars ? at least 80 to 90%.