“He targeted vehicles in movie theatre parking lots, outside malls or parked by the Moda Center sports arena in Portland.
Owners would return to the parking lot after their events only to find their car missing or, in some instances, propped up on cinderblocks, The Oregonian reported.
His girlfriend, Valerie Applegate, 40, allegedly helped Fonseca with his schemes by running license plates and vehicles identification numbers on cars that caught his interest through the DMV database. She would also look up owner information and provide it to her boyfriend.”
Interesting. The girlfriend helping him must have had more information than what they’re disclosing, since he was stripping/stealing the cars in specific places. How did he know that the cars were in those locations when he did his work?
I did some work for deficiency/repo management for GMAC a long time ago.
Hypothetically if I liked your car or rims, I could run a dmv check on your plate and get all the information on your drivers license. All you need is an account with the state.
He did not need the GF.
Most DMV sell all this info to third party providers which will sell it to anyone who has a credit card.
Most people have a semi-fixed routine so a little surveillance can go a long way.
this was a long time ago before ALR became common.
Possibly you can get nearly realtime data today, I know I could get that from the credit card providers pretty easily back in the day