Thieves Steal Police Equipment From Supply Store
Stolen Items Include Badges, Handcuffs
POSTED: 4:25 pm PST March 3, 2004
UPDATED: 9:58 pm PST March 3, 2004
SOQUEL, Calif. -- Santa Cruz County authorities are extremely concerned about a theft report out of Soquel.
The stolen items include police badges, batons, handcuffs, knives, pepper spray and other equipment from a supply store that sells to police officers and firefighters.
In all, the storeowner says the thieves took $7,500 worth of equipment after disabling a new alarm system on Monday.
They allegedly took the front door off its hinges and crawled under the building to cut alarm and phone wires.
The storeowner says he has no idea who might have stolen from him, but he said some sheriffs uniforms were taken from a storage shed behind his shop in December and those have not been caught yet either.
Meanwhile, Los Gatos police are still trying to figure out who stole an FBI sedan and set it on fire. While the car was found, two guns and some ammunition were not.
The two cases may be coincidence, but it does cause concern because stolen police gear is still out there, NBC11's Ethan Harp reported.
If you should get pulled over and have any reason to be suspicious, ask for a supervisor to come to the scene. A real officer will have no problem with that, Harp said.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/2895459/detail.html"If you should get pulled over and have any reason to be suspicious, ask for a supervisor to come to the scene. A real officer will have no problem with that, Harp said."
I think that will be my standard request now when I get pulled over in the future.