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Two weeks earlier, Kennedy and Yates allegedly stabbed to death Jonathan Rude, a convicted car thief from Butte County, according to officials.

Catalytic converter theft is a growing problem in Southern California, as thieves target the emission-control devices for high-value metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium.

"More and more the honest shopper is treated like a thief," one said, while another wrote "the point of all this is to save on staff".

An alleged thief in Florida swallowed stolen earrings worth more than half a million dollars moments before police took him into custody last week.

The thieves abandoned several designer bags in the streets, which the police were then able to recover, she said.