Does a car's ALPR system run "real time wireless" access to the state, or are the plates resident on the ALPR computer in the car?
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A 33-year-old woman Macomb County woman is in jail today on a kidnapping charge after a scout car equipped with a license plate reader alerted Clinton Township police officer Neil Stafford that something was amiss when her vehicle passed him on Metropolitan Parkway.
Stafford said he checked the system’s computer which indicated there was an outstanding warrant for the driver of the car, Cassandra Lynn Richardson, formerly of Lewiston, Mich. While checking that warrant, a passenger, Charles Edward Greene, 35, of Grayling, also was arrested on a non-related warrant issued in Crawford County.
The license plate reader cameras are attached to the trunk of the scout car, said Clinton Township police Capt. Joseph Merdes. It has four cameras that scan in all directions and detect license plate numbers from cars approaching and passing the police vehicle as well as those going in the same direction.
When the cameras read a license plate, a picture of the vehicle is recorded in the reader’s computer system. If the device determines a warrant is outstanding for the owner of the license plate attached to the car, it makes a sound alerting the officer.
Merdes said in this case Stafford was on a traffic stop on westbound Metropolitan Parkway just west of Harper Avenue when the Pagis system went off. Merdes said he device read Richardson’s license plate number and he put the plate number into his in-car computer to determine why Richardson was being sought and if the warrant was still active.
“I left the traffic stop and went after the suspect’s car,” Stafford said. “I caught up to her at Gratiot Avenue and asked her for her operator’s license."
Stafford said Richardson first told him the matter had been resolved. But Richardson, who was working for a landscape company in Macomb County, said she didn’t have any clearance papers so Stafford had no choice but to arrest the woman on the warrant.
Greene also was arrested and held for Crawford County authorities. Stafford said Richardson and Greene were cooperative with police even though Greene denied he was the Charles Greene in question.
Crawford County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shon Chemielewski said his department issued the warrant for Richardson because she and her husband are separated and she didn’t return their child after a court-ordered visitation.
July 28, 2011
By Gordon Wilczynski
Daily Tribune Staff Writer
