Quote:thanks. I never know such devices existed. I guess I'm not too tech savvy

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Very likely, that is how this car was spotted. Some of the JCPD units have the automatic plate reading cameras installed on the trunk lid. Surely you have seen these before. They look like boxes that point forward diagonally.

Here is what they look like mounted on an NYPD patrol car:

do automatic, electronic license plate readers exist such that the police could place around town and stop more stolen vehicles?

Posted on August 25, 2017 at 12:53 PM

By Michaelangelo Conte
The Jersey Journal


JERSEY CITY -- Jersey City police arrested two men spotted in a stolen car near the Grove Street PATH Station and also found stolen gun inside the vehicle, authorities said.

On Tuesday, police set up surveillance after confirming the 2013 Infinity parked at the corner of Grove Street and Newark Avenue had been reported stolen in Texas, according to a criminal complaint.

Authorities then watched as Jersey City residents Jerome Mack entered the passenger side vehicle and Anthony Smith got into the driver's side. Additional units were called to the scene and the vehicle was stopped after it began driving away, the complaint alleges.

Mack and Smith were removed from the vehicle and placed under arrest. Smith was found to have a Ziploc bag that contained suspected cocaine and a straw, according to the complaint.

A .40 caliber handgun, also reported stolen in Texas, was then found in the vehicle's center console, the court document states.

Mack, 34, of Beacon Way, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and receiving stolen property regarding the gun, the complaint says.

Smith, 49, of Morgan Street, was charged with receiving stolen property regarding the vehicle, receiving stolen property regarding the gun and possession of drug paraphernalia, the complaint says.

Both men made their first appearances on the charges Wednesday in Criminal Justice Reform Court in Jersey City via video link from Hudson County jail in Kearny.

At the hearing, the state moved to hold both men though the course of their prosecution and a detention hearing is set for Monday before Hudson County Superior Court Judge Paul DePascale.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... olen_in_texas_inside.html