LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forty-six years ago Ivan Schneider, successful Manhattan lawyer, bought himself the Jaguar convertible.
and it was stolen.
Forty-six years later, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol analyst running a routine export check through a stolen car database came up with a hit. The 1967 Jaguar XKE was hot.
The problem: It was already on a cargo ship, in a container, headed for Europe, two days out of the Port of Long Beach on the Pacific Ocean.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol and nonprofit National Insurance Crime Bureau got to work.
New York police still had the March 1968 incident report.
CHP investigator Michael Maleta spoke with Schneider in Florida, where he now lives. Schneider thought it was a prank.
"After we convinced him, he was excited," said Maleta.
and it was stolen.
Forty-six years later, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol analyst running a routine export check through a stolen car database came up with a hit. The 1967 Jaguar XKE was hot.
The problem: It was already on a cargo ship, in a container, headed for Europe, two days out of the Port of Long Beach on the Pacific Ocean.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol and nonprofit National Insurance Crime Bureau got to work.
New York police still had the March 1968 incident report.
CHP investigator Michael Maleta spoke with Schneider in Florida, where he now lives. Schneider thought it was a prank.
"After we convinced him, he was excited," said Maleta.
