Sunnyvale police used license plate readers to track down and arrest an allegedly violent San Jose boy.
On Feb. 16, Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (DPS) patrol officers responded to a report of an assault involving a gun on the 100 block of South Bernardo Avenue, according to a social media post by the Sunnyvale police union.
However, by the time DPS arrived on scene, the suspect had fled. The following day, police got an alert that the department’s automated license-plate reader system — Flock Safety camera system — had spotted the suspect’s vehicle in downtown Los Gatos…