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Multiple police agencies collaborated to locate and arrest a suspect after a Flock camera detected a stolen Mercedes in Trophy Club Sunday night.
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The Trophy Club K-9 Unit and Northlake drones led officers to a construction site near an apartment complex, where the suspect surrendered.
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Inside the stolen vehicle, police found suspected narcotics, stolen items, and various IDs. Additional charges are pending.
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Multiple police agencies collaborated to locate and arrest a suspect after a Flock camera detected a stolen Mercedes in Trophy Club Sunday night.
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The Trophy Club K-9 Unit and Northlake drones led officers to a construction site near an apartment complex, where the suspect surrendered.
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Inside the stolen vehicle, police found suspected narcotics, stolen items, and various IDs. Additional charges are pending.
Texas’s Trophies ClubAfter a police chase in Trophy Club, a suspect escaped from a stolen car, and a team of K-9 officers and many Dallas-Fort Worth-area police departments worked together to find the offender.
Stolen Vehicle Spotted
We know:
Around 9 p.m. on Sunday, police officers from Trophy Club reacted to a notification from a Flock camera, a system that specializes in license plate recognition. A stolen Mercedes car was caught on CCTV as it entered Trophy Club.
The stolen car was found by officers abandoned in the 1500 Plantation Oaks Drive parking lot of The Vineyards Apartments.
Police from Roanoke, Southlake, Keller, Northlake, and Irving were among the departments that helped Trophy Club police in their search for a suspect. Drones from Northlake and the Trophy Club K-9 Unit were also used.
Two people turned themselves up after K-9 officers led police to a construction site close to the flats.
Randy Veloz, the suspect, was taken into custody. He is currently facing charges of illegal motor vehicle use and escaping arrest.
Officers found several kinds of identity, financial instruments, stolen items, and suspected narcotics inside the stolen car. There are still unpaid fees associated with these goods.
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Police Chase
The backstory
The stolen Mercedes was already being pursued by Irving police before to the Flock camera notice. Trophy Club police took up the investigation when they lost the car there.
Officers collaborated with other agencies to find the culprit who had from the scene.
What is unknown to us:
Veloz was the sole person taken into custody, despite the police first claiming that two people were involved in the chase.
What function, if any, that second party played is unclear.
When the car was stolen is also unknown.
The Source: Trophy Club police issued a statement that contains the information in this story.
