Elk Grove police tracked down a wanted 34-year-old man last Saturday evening after an automated license-plate reader flagged a blue Mazda near State Route 99 and Bond Road around 6 PM. Officers followed the alert to a parking lot near Bond Road and Elk Grove-Florin Road, where they stopped the car. According to police, the driver initially refused multiple commands to get out, then eventually complied and was handed over to the investigating agency. He was wanted in an investigation involving kidnapping, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and was on post-release community supervision at the time, authorities said.
The Elk Grove Police Department later posted video of the stop on Facebook, saying its ALPR system first detected the Mazda on State Route 99 near Bond Road, then guided officers into the nearby parking lot. In that post, the department identifies the driver as a 34-year-old man wanted in connection with a kidnapping, robbery and assault-with-a-deadly-weapon investigation, notes that he is on…..