I understand if someone borrows (steals) your license plate. Get a police report.
If you go to get a new plate, without report it will cost you. Had a customer tell me, with a report it saved the the price of a new tag.
Said he may put JB weld on bolts to deter theft. Told him he needs to get a lifetime plate first.

I was so much older then, I am younger than that now (Wrote By Dylan Sung by the BYRDS,)