Catalytic converter theft at grocery store ‘brazen’: RCMP [Video]

A Sherwood Park woman was left shocked and dismayed after a recent high-speed theft in a grocery store parking lot.

Eve Bandura was running into Save-On-Foods for a few things on Monday afternoon after work, parking right near the entrance as usual.

Thanks to the lack of lineups at the tills, she was in and out in less than 10 minutes.

“Upon exiting, I started my car and was greatly surprised at the sudden loud noise it was making,” Bandera said.

“It was like starting a diesel truck,” she added. “I honestly thought I had broken my car.”

She didn’t have to sit long wondering what could have happened.

“A gentleman came here and flagged me down and let me know what he had just witnessed,” she said.

“Just a couple minutes prior, my catalytic converter had been completely sawed off the bottom of my car.”

The man, already on …