FBI busts second alleged chop shop

Feb 11, 2013 | 12:51 PM | Lisa Gordon

Tags  scrapyard, chop shop, copper wire, aluminum scrap, Mike Wymer, Mike Deutsch, Gary Wymer, Terry Wymer Shawn Wymer

PITTSBURGH — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has busted a second alleged chop shop operation in Ohio in less than six months.

The Cleveland division of the FBI arrested five men and is searching for a sixth for allegedly stealing and dismantling semi-trucks and trailers and selling the metal to a New Castle, Pa., scrapyard.

Mike Deutsch, 37, Gary Wymer Sr., 55, Mike Wymer, 54, Terry Wymer Jr., 28, and Shawn Wymer, 27, are accused of unlawfully transporting stolen goods in interstate commerce, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Ohio, and an arrest warrant has been issued for Robert Debolt, 47. ....





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