An alleged bundle thief tracked by the Arcadia Police Division through GPS was discovered mortally injured in a automobile crash Wednesday — although officers weren’t actively pursuing the suspect’s automobile on the time, authorities mentioned.
Officers stumbled on the crash scene in the 300 block of West Maple Avenue in Monrovia round 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, in keeping with police.
Police had been making an attempt to find a so-called bait bundle, a monitoring gadget the division offers to members of the group to catch “porch pirates” within the act of theft, in keeping with Lt. Kollin Cieadlo with the Arcadia Police Division.
“For a very long time we have been having an uptick within the porch pirates,” Cieadlo mentioned. “It’s all stat-based. If we now have an uptick in mail thefts in our reporting districts then we’d shift and discover a resident to have this bait bundle put into their mailbox.”
This system has been utilized by the Arcadia Police Division since a minimum of 2017 and has resulted in arrests of repeat offenders and other people out on parole or probation, Cieadlo mentioned.
One other constructive, he mentioned, is that the bait packages permit officers to trace suspects with out having to get into harmful pursuits.
The crash Wednesday was a single-vehicle crash, in keeping with the division. The motive force of the automobile died at a hospital whereas a passenger was being handled for average accidents.
Contained in the automobile, police mentioned they discovered the GPS-monitored bundle in addition to further mail that seemed to be stolen.
