contact Fremont Police. A scrap yard in San Jose at the center of an investigation into stolen catalytic converters has agreed to settle with the city. New at ten tonight, south bay reporter lamonica peters live for us in San Jose. And lamonica. This caps a year long investigation that included an massive undercover police operation. Heather Joseph Chen was facing a public nuisance shutdown order last year as police were investigating who was stealing catalytic catalytic converters in San Jose and now the city says they found no evidence against Chen. And through his lawyer, he wants to clear his name. They charged Joseph Chen with the crime that case was dismissed. James Roberts is the attorney for Joseph Chen, who's been under investigation for catalytic converter thefts in San Jose. Chen owns Tung Tai Group, which operates a metal scrap yard on Rogers Avenue. The police came out and did a complete search of that property and found no catalytic converters, period. They found no evidence of catalytic converters ever being there. They found no evidence of catalytic converters ever been sold there. They found no evidence that tongue tied, ever even recycled the catalytic converters. Roberts says paying San Jose $2,500 was the most cost effective way for Chan to close the nuisance complaint filed by the city. As a part of the settlement, San Jose police will have to remove Chen's name from its website and social media pages. San Jose City attorney also confirmed no evidence of theft was found and the settlement includes an injunction requiring Chen to follow compliance codes. The Bay Area has been hit hard by a catalytic converter thefts in the last few years and one auto shop owner says he doesn't see the issue being resolved anytime soon. This is a catalytic converter that was cut off of a Nissan. What they're after is the substrate inside that honeycomb material that's inside the catalytic converter. Shawn Pham owns Keystone Auto Service in Santa Clara and says already this year he's had ten customer who've had their catalytic converter stolen. It's unfortunate, right? A lot of these manufacturers, they design the cars not thinking that it was going to get stolen and these guys have found ways to go about doing it. And the downside is, as a consumer, you're now stuck with the bill because not many people know that insurance companies may not cover this type of theft at all. I also asked Roberts about a stolen park statue that was found at the scrap yard, and he says that people leave items at the scrap yard all the time, especially if they can't sell it. And that chin had nothing to do with the statue being stolen. And he also never paid any money for it. Heather All right. Despite that settlement, though
