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GTA organized criminals are recruiting teens as scouts for car thefts

Teenage scouts cruise high-end GTA neighbourhoods and parking lots with shopping lists of vehicles they could never afford themselves.

They hope to make $75 to $100 for spotting a vehicle worth stealing: A Lexus RX, a Toyota Highlander, a Ram truck, a Honda CR-V, maybe a Range Rover.

Toronto has seen an auto theft boom since the beginning of the pandemic — and these young scouts are a vital part of it

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