{"id":1513,"date":"2010-03-03T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2010-03-03T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:07:20","slug":"spd-news-release-off-duty-officer-locates-stolen-vehicle-ninth-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/2010\/03\/03\/spd-news-release-off-duty-officer-locates-stolen-vehicle-ninth-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"SPD News Release &#8211; Off Duty Officer Locates Stolen Vehicle &#8211; Ninth in One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 03\/02\/10, Officer Glenn Bartlett was off duty when a black Nissan Pathfinder pulled in front of him.\u00a0 He immediately recognized this vehicle as being stolen as he had taken the report earlier in the day while on duty.\u00a0 Officer Bartlett contacted police dispatch and continued to follow the vehicle to the Shadle Wal-Mart parking lot.\u00a0 Investigative Sergeant Dan Torok was also off duty and on his way home when he responded to\u00a0assist\u00a0while waiting for\u00a0on duty units to arrive and\u00a0recover the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Erin Raleigh, Officer Frank Erhart and Officer Nick Geren arrived on scene and contacted the occupants of the vehicle.\u00a0 Officers later placed the driver, Christal N. Helsley, 36, under arrest for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Since February 25th, there has been an increase in stolen vehicle activity in the area of 12th Ave and\u00a0South Ivory St.\u00a0 Several vehicles have been stolen from and recovered in a six mile radius of that location, including the Nissan Pathfinder recovered by Officer Bartlett.<\/p>\n<p>Over his last five day work week, which ended yesterday, Officer Bartlett has recovered nine stolen vehicles.\u00a0 Bartlett\u2019s patrol car is equipped with two cameras and an automatic license-plate recognition system allowing him to scan vehicle license plates and compare it against a nationwide database of stolen vehicles, allowing\u00a0him to recover stolen cars faster.<\/p>\n<p>While this does give Spokane Police Department another tool to assist them with stolen vehicles, citizens can still take precautions when leaving their vehicles unattended to avoid having their vehicle become a target.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure Your Vehicle \u2013 park in a locked garage or well lit area, lock your doors, don\u2019t leave the engine running unattended.<\/li>\n<li>Sterilize Your Vehicle \u2013 avoid\u00a0leaving anything of value in plain sight inside the vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-Theft Devices \u2013 clubs, alarm systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Report the Crime to the Police \u2013 Vehicle Prowling or\u00a0Vehicle Theft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03\/02\/10, Officer Glenn Bartlett was off duty when a black Nissan Pathfinder pulled in front of him.\u00a0 He immediately recognized this vehicle as being stolen as he had taken the report earlier in the day while on duty.\u00a0 Officer Bartlett contacted police dispatch and continued to follow the vehicle to the Shadle Wal-Mart parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-prevention","category-logan-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/campo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}