04-26-2025, 12:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2025, 01:51 AM by Moderator 2.)
A little more info if you ever catch a thief on camera.
I was robbed last summer. My cameras caught the thief’s face, his truck loaded with my things.
The prosecutor’s office just called me. They finally served the guy, brought him into court, he pleaded not guilty. I was told it’s not a strong case because none of the camera views show him in the act of stealing my items. The prosecutor would find it difficult to prove this guy was the actual thief without video of him carrying items and placing them in his truck.
You might want to take that into account when you choose the sites for your cameras. For instance, a thief’s vehicle loaded with your fruit, leaving your property is not as strong evidence as the thief putting fruit into his truck. The thief at my house arrived with some bags already in the back of his truck bed, then put everything he took from me in garbage bags. I can’t testify anything in the truck was mine because it was covered. With fruit they could easily throw a tarp over everything and claim it was just some stuff, protected from the wind that they were driving around with.
I was robbed last summer. My cameras caught the thief’s face, his truck loaded with my things.
The prosecutor’s office just called me. They finally served the guy, brought him into court, he pleaded not guilty. I was told it’s not a strong case because none of the camera views show him in the act of stealing my items. The prosecutor would find it difficult to prove this guy was the actual thief without video of him carrying items and placing them in his truck.
You might want to take that into account when you choose the sites for your cameras. For instance, a thief’s vehicle loaded with your fruit, leaving your property is not as strong evidence as the thief putting fruit into his truck. The thief at my house arrived with some bags already in the back of his truck bed, then put everything he took from me in garbage bags. I can’t testify anything in the truck was mine because it was covered. With fruit they could easily throw a tarp over everything and claim it was just some stuff, protected from the wind that they were driving around with.