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Table 2

Cargo Theft Property Stolen and Recovered

by Type and Value, 2016

Type of property Value of property Percent
recovered
Stolen Recovered
Total $26,933,356 $8,449,949 31.4
Alcohol 826,360 1,029 0.1
Automobile 392,879 180,000 45.8
Bicycle 6,527 0 0.0
Building materials 1,262,488 441,583 35.0
Camping, hunting, fishing equipment, supplies 144 0 0.0
Chemicals 20,400 0 0.0
Clothes, furs 390,666 5,420 1.4
Computer hardware, software 530,772 515,925 97.2
Consumable goods 3,066,939 301,116 9.8
Credit,debit cards1 0 0
Drugs, narcotics 50,081 0 0.0
Farm equipment 3,368 500 14.8
Firearm accessories 41,200 40,000 97.1
Firearms 15,550 3,650 23.5
Fuel 29,770 0 0.0
Household goods 1,557,553 112,920 7.2
Identity documents1 0 0
Industrial equipment 371,693 52,183 14.0
Jewelry, precious metals 17,768 548 3.1
Lawn, yard, garden equipment 5,406 4,206 77.8
Livestock 120,000 0 0.0
Medical, medical lab equipment 702 0 0.0
Merchandise 732,734 27,568 3.8
Metals, nonprecious 1,126,825 952,500 84.5
Money 35,029 0 0.0
Musical instruments 9,000 0 0.0
Negotiable instrument 15 0 0.0
Nonnegotiable instrument1 0 0
Office equipment 303,062 0 0.0
Other 6,770,506 1,021,466 15.1
Other motor vehicles 122,700 60,000 48.9
Pending inventory 10 0 0.0
Photographic, optical equipment 53,100 2,800 5.3
Portable electronic communications 1,262,051 18,185 1.4
Purse,wallet 959 0 0.0
Radio, TV, VCR 472,001 1,500 0.3
Recreational, sports equipment 100,500 0 0.0
Tools 379,657 21,850 5.8
Trailers 2,589,730 1,735,703 67.0
Trucks 3,919,445 2,879,963 73.5
Vehicle parts 345,766 69,334 20.1
  • 1 According to Uniform Crime Reporting guidelines, the value of property stolen and/or recovered must be zero for this property description.

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