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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

get their plates and a photo

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs. Doubtful that the truck had a valid registration/license plate with a traceable address.

I used to disc golf with a dude who had multiple DUIs and finally went to jail for it for 18 months. The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs.

Hence the photo, which should make it pretty easy to figure out who the guy is when he's already registered in the system. Once you know who he is you quickly find out where he's living, because again, the guy has 97 priors, so the cops should have a solid database on where he tends to reside and who he knows.

The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

That's absolutely horrendous... hope he gets caught again before he kills someone...

Besides that: That could quickly be a situation where whoever is apprehending him recognises that he's drunk-driving and that he's a big enough threat to the public to warrant chasing him down instead of letting him go and apprehending him later.