OCEAN CITY — Two Washington, D.C. area residents were arrested in Ocean City last Saturday morning after allegedly stealing a car in Montgomery County with a 9-year-old boy inside and driving to the resort where they were picked up after a high-risk traffic stop on Coastal Highway.
Around 9 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police received a broadcast regarding a reported stolen vehicle crossing the Route 90 Bridge. The black Honda had been reportedly stolen in Hyattsville, Md. A check with the Hyattsville Police Department revealed the vehicle had been stolen when the owner forgot her glasses and left the vehicle running in the driveway to go inside and find them.
The owner left her nine-year-old son in the vehicle when she went inside to retrieve her glasses and a Hispanic male holding a beer bottle jumped into the vehicle and drove away. The vehicle owner reported hearing her son screaming as she came outside after retrieving her glasses. The Hyattsville Police explained the nine-year-old boy was able to exit the vehicle shortly after it was stolen.
Meanwhile, back in Ocean City, an OCPD officer was traveling south on Coastal Highway when he received the broadcast about the stolen vehicle and observed a black Honda waiting at the light at the foot of the Route 90 bridge. The officer made a U-turn and picked up the stolen Honda on northbound Coastal Highway at around 70th Street. The officer broadcast the situation and was joined by other OCPD patrol vehicles, which stopped the Honda around 84th Street.
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Montgomery county was great place to live 20 years ago but it is now a sanctuary county. I am glad I moved.
ReplyDeleteOn of those Obama Border Jumpers....
ReplyDeleteObviously, the OC tag scanner worked.
ReplyDeleteGlad he is off the street. But how did this come to be? A tag reader perhaps? The driver wasn't violating traffic laws. So why was the tag ran to determine it was stolen? Out of hyattsville ,no way local Leo's here knew it was on the hot sheet. just because a thief was caught doesn't hide the fact tags are being run illegally.
ReplyDeleteThe tag scanners simply compare the tag number to a database of numbers tied to an individual's tag number who may be related to a crime or a number associated with a theft, etc. OCR technology has been around for years. Facial recognition has been around for a while too. The speed (trap) cameras read your tag so they will know where to send the fine.
ReplyDeleteGreat job by the Tag Reader, we need more of them. If you did nothing wrong you have nothing to fear! What say you if the boy was still in the car and had not escaped ??? (JNS)
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