Lt. Paul Stokes tells Instant Tea there’s been a significant increase in motor-vehicle burglaries near the Cedar Springs entertainment district in recent weeks, so DPD deployed a bait vehicle to 3200 Throckmorton with a laptop computer and a GPS unit in plain view.
And the sting operation worked. On Sunday afternoon, a suspect opened the unlocked vehicle, which was parked on the street, and removed the items. The 42-year-old white male was arrested a few blocks away at 3200 Wycliff by officers who observed the theft.
“This is proactive policing to address BMVs in the area,” Stokes said Monday. “We’ve had an uptick and it’s caught our eye, so we have our surveillance out. We wanted to get on it before it was a huge problem.
“If people would lock, take and hide, we wouldn’t have to do this,” he added.
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My car was broken into on Thursday night and I “LOCKED”, “TOOK” and “HID” and still they broke my window. I even caught the guy in my car, he jumped in the passenger side of the getaway car and drove off. I got the plate number, but they basically told me they couldn’t do anything for me.
No where is safe. No matter what precautions you take.
I left nothing of value in my vehicle two Saturday’s ago… Window was still broken into and they tore my dash apart to get the cheap $75 radio. To say it’s the victims fault (“If people would lock, take and hide, we wouldn’t have to do this,” he added.) is offensive…