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American Underworld -Car and Identity Theft

The American Underworld season 1 episode 2: Car/Identity Theft - For some, grand theft is their American dream. Mark witnesses people taking every opportunity they can to make money– stealing and then chop-shopping a car back into circulation, hijacking a credit card to create phony new ones, even robbing neighbors.

Every 40 seconds, the car is stolen in America. Specialized in car thieves are constantly shopping for cars or your own car, and so they meet the customers needs. Johnson gets unprecedented access to a car theft ring in Northern California and follow the thief, who recognizes he needs a car, parked in front of the house with the owner of a typical suburban neighborhood.


Mark Allen Johnson will continue to put all stories online, most do not dare. Johnson will need some of the most extremely violent and difficult to grow in this country, the sex trade, drug makers to tell stories about the underworld could be right next door. Using unusual methods, Johnson has used a mixture of bravado and brains to get a very private world.

Maintaining confidence in his subjects can only be a deadly business, which often require months of negotiations. Pointing the camera really puts her life in danger. Inserting these world, and sometimes the eyes, and separated from his crew and Johnson gives some of the most raw and exciting videos on television today.

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