Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A local police department in Texas credited tag readers for the arrest of a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of child molestation, the Loganville Patch reports.
The alert from the license plate reader indicated the owner of the car had an outstanding warrant. Under the system, a camera reads license plates of parked and moving cars — hundreds per minute — and checks them against vehicle databases.
“[The officer] initiated a traffic stop [and] was able to confirm out of Del Rio, Texas, that the person driving the vehicle was wanted for indecent acts with a child,” Assistant Police Chief Dick Lowry said.
The identify of the officer is unclear.
