somehow after banging on the locked door with what appears to be a laptop computer, the suspect makes his escape. but he doesn t get far. hollenbeck and harvey track the suspect as he runs from the car and hops a fence on to angel golf course. i start talking to the producer. get us on air. we got a guy running on the golf course just jumped out of a stolen car. as soon as he got over the fence, they started to break in. what have you got? we ve got a car here that just fled a bait car. he tried to steal a vehicle. he s trying to run away from police who just responded to the location of the vehicle. hollenbeck continues to narrate the event. then as they were trying to cut away to the studio this will get him going.
homeland funding. welcome back to caught on camera. i m contessa brewer. just like our last video, a thief is caught on camera inside a bait car. but this time the suspect makes a mad dash for freedom. and leads police and a television news crew through an 18 hole golf course. but i bet you never saw this kind of drive-by on a golf course. may 5th, 2008. las vegas. metro police have placed an unlocked bait car in the parking lot of the angel park golf club to lure car thieves who ve been targeting the area. it s early in the morning but someone s already bitten. the car thief finds the keys in the center console of the cadillac escalade, gets into the driver s seat and takes off. checking to make sure he isn t being followed. but unbeknownst to him, authorities are tracking his movements. and they re not the only ones.
catches the police by surprise. i was a little taken back on the operator of the vehicle. totally out of the norm. july 28th, 2008. arlington, texas. detective jesse minton of the arlington police department auto and theft unit is alerted that a bait car has been broken into. bait cars rigged with cameras and gps tracking equipment are used by police departments nationwide to catch thieves in an area where it s a problem. we pick a car that looks like cars that are most stolen. we lock the doors remotely. record everything inside with video cameras and microphones. then we deploy them to a place where we have a crime problem or persons stealing cars in the area. we re basically fishing with the bait. the bait car, a red chrysler sebring is stolen just down the
suspect knows he s in trouble. but he s going to try and make a run for it. somehow after banging on the locked door with what appears to be a laptop computer, the suspect makes his escape. but he doesn t get far. hollenbeck and harvey track the suspect as he runs from the car and hops a fence on to angel golf course. i start talking to the producer. get us on air. we got a guy running on the golf course just jumped out of a stolen car. as soon as he got over the fence, they started to break in. what have you got? we ve got a car here that just fled a bait car. he tried to steal a vehicle. he s trying to run away from police who just responded to the location of the vehicle. hollenbeck continues to narrate the event.
about that time we saw the vehicle. with the car stopped and the doors automatically locked, the suspect knows he s in trouble. but he s going to try and make a run for it. somehow after banging on the locked door with what appears to be a laptop computer, the suspect makes his escape. but he doesn t get far. hollenbeck and harvey track the suspect as he runs from the car and hops a fence on to angel golf course. i start talking to the producer. get us on air. we got a guy running on the golf course just jumped out of a stolen car. as soon as he got over the fence, they started to break in. what have you got? we ve got a car here that just fled a bait car. he tried to steal a vehicle. he s trying to run away from police who just responded to the