License Plate Reading Camera It played a major role in finding an Arizona city man who was accused of stealing a trailer from a Sorrento driveway two weeks ago.

Maricopa Police Station first learned about the trailer on February 8th just after 7pm. Immaricopa.

Luckily for detectives, some of the swarm safety license plate reading cameras placed around the city took photos of suspicious vehicles before and after the theft.

The camera captured the Chevy S10 with a temperature tag operating on the Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway at 4:46pm and hauled a stolen trailer on Honeycutt Road at 5:42pm

The image showed the back of a “thin skin man” with a buzz cut and “graying black hair” without passengers. Comparing people with MVD photos of the registered owner of the truck, police identified the driver as Pedro Cortez Gonzalez, a 49-year-old Arizona resident.

Police arrested Gonzalez in Eloi on Wednesday, where he said he “remember picking up the trailer from Maricopa and someone came to his house and retrieved it from him,” according to a police report. and.

The officer said he found something “what appears to be a drug” in his wallet, but no further details have been added to the finding.

Gonzalez was booked at the Pinal County Jail on felony charges of car theft, theft in excess of $2,000, robbery, trafficking property, and possessing dangerous drugs and equipment. He also had a pre-adjustment warrant from Eloy.

He has faced prison for over 64 years.

License plate reading cameras also play out in several other recent arrests.