Social media helps police track stolen Jeep
(CNS): Police have recovered the black 2016 Jeep Wrangler that was stolen in East end last week with help from social media. The vehicle was stolen during a burglary at a home on the Queen’s Highway on Thursday morning. Yesterday (Tuesday) a member of the public spotted a black Jeep on Avon Way off Eastern Avenue and took a picture, which was posted on Cayman Marl Road, tagging the police.
The police thanked those involved for their help and said they are continuing with the investigation.
If anyone has any information about the burglary in which a number of other things were taken they are asked to contact the Bodden Town Police Station at 947-2220.
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Where’s my new license plates?
Probably would have been chopped and sold for parts or used in a crime.
So it was a 4-door? Why did the keystone cops circulate a photo of a 2-door the other day?
The press release said “similar.” But you didn’t read that did you.
You know they could find a photo of an actual similar one with a simple google search though?
Had my car stolen and it was caught on CCTV – and a few seconds later my car, when leaving my property at speed was followed by a police car! Don’t they have dash cameras now? They could not even identify their own police car! Jokers!
Huh?
They couldn’t find it with their multi million dollar CCTV and RFID licence plate system but a member of the public spotted it with the Mark 1 eyeball.
People stealing cars usually don’t break windows and have master keys. Car dealers usually have master keys or locksmiths. Mine was stolen and recovered by a member of the family. Would love to know when and if cars are relocated where are are majorly found?
What’s amazing is CMR send out a text to their distribution list saying the following:
“ Another media house didn’t believe our post I guess. What a mess they in.”
Simply because CNS made an inquiry to the police media person, I assume this was to fact check. Yet the narcissistic host of CMR couldn’t help herself smh what a disaster and to think the PaCKED Government chose that xxx as their media person.
Should all be ashamed. CNS you shouldn’t give her one bit of credit
Always gonna be found. Where you going to go? The equivalent of driving to each side of a little english town, but then you hot the sea rather than a getaway road. PRAY FOR UKRA8NE
Unrelated to the story, but pertinent to the traffic enforcement.
Today, I followed a traffic unit along South Sound from Scotiabank to Smith’s Cove. For the entire journey the cop car was behind a Japanese pickup van, it had re-bar in the back hanging out about 3ft at least. No red flag or material attached to it. Despite following it for about 4km, the cruising police vehicle did nothing. If a traffic unit, crossing SS doesn’t even stop it for a word, I’m not sure how we proceed from here.
8. (1) A vehicle carrying an overhanging load shall mark such load –
(a) by day, with a red flag at least one foot by one foot in size at
each point where such load projects outside the profile of the
vehicle; and
(b) by night, with a white light to the front, a red light to the rear and
an amber light to the sides at each point where such load projects
beyond the profile of the vehicle.
(2) Where the overhanging load projects beyond three feet over any side
of the vehicle, the vehicle shall be accompanied by a police escort at a time and
date approved in advance by the Commissioner.
If more people help the police then it will be less crime in the Cayman Islands. Well done to that person who found and reports the stolen car.
If the police were more observant and patrolling they would have located it.
If CIG didn’t import the dross of Jamaica, Cayman would be wonderful
Have the police arrested the people responsible for the special license plates and cctv system yet? Maladministration is a crime. Are the police not enforcing the law?
Doh! No they are not. They have become enablers, complicit in much that ails Cayman.
People have to complain and post on social media before doing anything else. How sad.
Isn’t it quite difficult to steal a jeep without the ignition key?
Guess they stole the keys as they committed the house robbery
I hide a couple Apple Air Tags in my car. While not a live move-by-move GPS tracker, it is a cheap solution that will give you a fighting shot in a place like Cayman (for at least a couple days until the thief gets and anti-stalking alert…which will scare the crap out of a thief because they will realized they have been tracked)
Or maybe the police could get RFID readers for the fancy plates and window stickers already on the cars.
In Canada you see police cars going through mall parking lots with the RFID reader on the roof looking for warrants, expired tags, stolen vehicles etc..Why can’t they do that here?
That’s way too sensible. And it wouldn’t occur to them anyway.
Because they’re actually efficient at doing things in Canada…
Why not just call the police?
They did but as per usual they weren’t very helpful..
Probably because they didn’t want to say who they were – not a lot of confidence in the police keeping it confidential
Cayman is lost. This is what we’ve come to.
Where have you been for the last twenty years?
Good job, CMR.
now if only they would stop stirring up trouble, harassing private citizens and the like