Typically, police only learn of vehicle break-ins after car owners report them.
But when a dozen vehicles were broken into in Eagle County last Tuesday morning, the roles were reversed: police discovered the break-ins first and then notified the vehicles’ owners.
It was part of a wave of break-ins taking place across the state, originating in Douglas County and then moving its way into Avon, Vail and Silverthorne. Detectives, using the Flock license plate reading system which has garnered negative headlines in Colorado in recent months, were able to track the thieves closely, showing up to the locations the burglars had hit just after they left…