South Phoenix chop shop crackdown ends with 19 stolen cars recovered, suspect arrested

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NEW: A salvage yard owner has been arrested after a south Phoenix chop shop investigation ended with the recovery of more than a dozen stolen cars, the Arizona Dept. of Public Safety announced Wednesday.

on Jan. 17 in an effort to stop chop shop operations. Officials said they inspected 12 businesses and served search warrants for three of them.

Mohammad Moe Lathgani, 36, faces a number of charges including operating a chop shop, drug possession, and four counts of theft of means of transportation."This operation was conceived in an effort to disrupt the flow of stolen vehicles that end up in chop shops at salvage yards throughout the Phoenix area," DPS said in a statement.

 

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43rd ave. & Broadway is not South Phoenix

Dawg, one think an auto dent man could make a good living without doing bad things

A salvage yard. Talk about crime out in the open. There's corruption somewhere in the process.

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