The Asian Age

Thief caught after BMW remotely locks car

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

Seattle police recently arrested an alleged car thief by taking help from car maker BMW to both track, and then remotely lock the car with the accused inside. Deputy Director of communicat­ions for the Seattle Police Department, Jonah Spangentha­l-Lee posted a witty summary of the event on the SPD’s blog last week.

“A car thief awoke from a sound slumber Sunday morning (Nov. 27) to find he had been remotely locked inside a stolen BMW, just as Seattle police officers were bearing down on him,” Spangentha­l-Lee wrote.

The suspect found the key fob mistakenly left inside the BMW by a friend who’d borrowed the car from the owner resulting in the alleged crime. After the theft was discovered by the owner, the police contacted BMW corporate, who tracked the car to Seattle’s Ravenna neighbourh­ood. The car was parked, still running, with the thief fast asleep behind the wheel.

“BMW employees were able to remotely lock the car’s doors, trapping the suspect inside, presumably while hissing something terrifying, like ‘I’m not locked in here with you; you’re locked in here with me’ into the car’s sound system,” Spangentha­l-Lee wrote. The 38-year-old suspect was also carrying a small amount of crystal meth, and was charged with auto theft and drug possession, police stated.

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