How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught

Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.

Describes how police investigated to catch people.

Edit: Didn't realize this was subscriber only (cause I'm a subscriber and could read it in my RSS feed). Archive link.

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all the cases are identified by licence plate

in one of the cases, the suspect could've gotten rid of their bpttle receipts and clothes to reduce evidence against them
- Seems like covering your face, obscuring a license plate, parking a long ways away, riding a bike, and generally using clothing that are disposed of after may have stifled this investigation. I'm always surprised how so many people just drive to where they are going to do a crime with their cell phone on them.
  
  I've seen shoplifters walking out of stores, giving the finger to security and even they had sense to remove their license plate before doing their thing.
  
  Anyone taking their phone to commit a crime is really not understanding what a phone is and is capable of.
- buy shit with cash, cover your license plate, ditch clothes, wear gloves, leave your mobile at home.
@ europeans who want Americans to do more

do y'all have to put up with this level of surveillance?
- Pretty sure they do
Archive link? 🙏 Paywalled after a few paragraphs
- https://archive.ph/nwkA7
  
  Thank you!!
- Didn’t realize this was subscriber only (cause I’m a subscriber and could read it in my RSS feed). Archive link.

11 comments