Photo: Bogdan Popa/autoevolution/Volvo
People sometimes have the weirdest hobby, and a 27-year-old man from Stafford County, Virginia, apparently started collecting truck mirrors.
The only problem is that he started collecting truck mirrors he didn't own. The man started stealing mirrors years ago, with the police claiming they investigated the case but never managed to identify and arrest the suspect. Not even when they conducted surveillance, as the thief knew precisely what he was doing. After all, he was stealing truck mirrors.
The Stafford County Sheriff's Office took to the WWW earlier this month to proudly announce that they arrested the thief. 27-year-old Carlos Flores Hernandez was caught after he stole the wrong truck mirror.
The man was out doing what he typically did when he noticed a Volvo tractor parked on Eskimo Hill Road. He looked closely, and the mirrors were still in place – a sign this was the first time he came across the Volvo.
It didn't take long before he ran away with the side mirrors without even thinking that the tractor's owner was already a step ahead. The owner installed an AirTag into the side mirror, so when Hernandez walked away with it, he disclosed critical information that helped the police hunt him down.
Hours later, the police rushed to the location indicated by the AirTag and conducted surveillance, and on November 20, approximately seven days after the man stole the tracked mirror, they received the search warrant. The officer executed the warrant and found the suspect and no more, no less than 206 truck mirrors.
It doesn't look like the man stole the mirrors for a living. All the mirrors previously reported as stolen were in his home, along with stickers that included details related to the date and location of the theft. The information helped the police return the mirrors to the owners, though meanwhile, most of them had already purchased replacement mirrors to be able to use the tractors.
The 27-year-old man was charged with two counts of grand larceny and two counts of tampering with a vehicle and is now in custody in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
AirTags are pill-shaped devices that use CR2032 batteries to communicate with the master device. They don't sport built-in Internet connection but connect to nearby iPhones to broadcast their location. The coordinates appear in the Find My application on the owner's iPhone, with the information updated as long as the AirTag remains connected to an iPhone in proximity.
The device has become a must-have gadget for car owners, helping them keep track of their vehicles if they get stolen. The long battery life and the small form factor allow the device to be installed almost anywhere, especially as the thief would have a hard time locating and disabling the device.
The Stafford County Sheriff's Office took to the WWW earlier this month to proudly announce that they arrested the thief. 27-year-old Carlos Flores Hernandez was caught after he stole the wrong truck mirror.
The man was out doing what he typically did when he noticed a Volvo tractor parked on Eskimo Hill Road. He looked closely, and the mirrors were still in place – a sign this was the first time he came across the Volvo.
It didn't take long before he ran away with the side mirrors without even thinking that the tractor's owner was already a step ahead. The owner installed an AirTag into the side mirror, so when Hernandez walked away with it, he disclosed critical information that helped the police hunt him down.
Hours later, the police rushed to the location indicated by the AirTag and conducted surveillance, and on November 20, approximately seven days after the man stole the tracked mirror, they received the search warrant. The officer executed the warrant and found the suspect and no more, no less than 206 truck mirrors.
It doesn't look like the man stole the mirrors for a living. All the mirrors previously reported as stolen were in his home, along with stickers that included details related to the date and location of the theft. The information helped the police return the mirrors to the owners, though meanwhile, most of them had already purchased replacement mirrors to be able to use the tractors.
The 27-year-old man was charged with two counts of grand larceny and two counts of tampering with a vehicle and is now in custody in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
AirTags are pill-shaped devices that use CR2032 batteries to communicate with the master device. They don't sport built-in Internet connection but connect to nearby iPhones to broadcast their location. The coordinates appear in the Find My application on the owner's iPhone, with the information updated as long as the AirTag remains connected to an iPhone in proximity.
The device has become a must-have gadget for car owners, helping them keep track of their vehicles if they get stolen. The long battery life and the small form factor allow the device to be installed almost anywhere, especially as the thief would have a hard time locating and disabling the device.
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