License plate recognition technology helped the Huntsville Police Department arrest a violent fugitive and safely recover a missing 16-year-old in two separate cases last week, according to police.
In the first case, officers arrested a fugitive wanted out of Atlanta on a violent felony charge after investigators entered a vehicle’s license plate number into the department’s LPR system.
Police said HPD’s Patrol Division and the North Alabama Multi-Agency Crime Center were alerted Feb. 16 around 4:30 p.m. that the suspect could be in the area. After identifying a vehicle associated with the individual, officers entered the plate into the system and confirmed the vehicle was in Huntsville…