Less than 24 hours after being installed, license plate reader (LPR) cameras helped Whiteville Police capture a woman wanted in connection to a homicide.
LPR cameras scan license plates when instructed to search for wanted vehicles. Chadbourn Police have used their LPR system with significant success in recent years.
Whiteville Police Chief Paul Rockenbach said the WPD camera installation was completed March 4, and around 1:45 p.m. March 5, a “vehicle connected to a wanted individual from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office through an NCIC database hit…