Police arrested a man in Sonoma County on suspicion of stealing a Mini Cooper after he asked an officer for the time.
On Wednesday, the Healdsburg Police Department received an alert that a vehicle reported stolen had entered the city, as a Flock automated license plate reader detected its license plate, the department said in a Facebook post.
Officers then attempted to recover the vehicle, but the driver was able to “evade contact” when an officer spotted him driving over Memorial Bridge. Officers later came across the stolen vehicle again while it was parked at a shopping center and waited for the driver’s return…