More and more cars seem to be disappearing in Alberta. In 2014, there were 2,600 insurance claims for missing vehicles. Last year, that number jumped to 4,200, around a 60 percent increase.The Insurance Bureau of Canada’s lead investigator, Dan Service, says there are two common types of vehicle theft. “One is an opportunistic event where someone needs to get from point A to point B, or they’re going to commit a crime, and they’ll steal a vehicle, and then we’ll find it again,” explains Service. “The other kind are vehicles that are stolen for profit, generally by an organized crime group, and those ones, they disappear.”
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