{"id":2277,"date":"2007-05-01T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/surveillance_cameras_work.html"},"modified":"2007-05-01T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T17:41:28","slug":"surveillance_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/surveillance_ca.html","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Cameras Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But it&#8217;s unlikely that Ray Kelly will tout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05012007\/news\/regionalnews\/druggies_cams_nail_suspect_in_boys_hit_run_death_regionalnews_larry_celona_and_jamie_schram.htm\">this example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The gutless driver busted yesterday for mowing down a bike-riding Brooklyn teen was done in by a high-tech video surveillance system set up by drug dealers to protect the building they once used as their den, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Morales, 34, was initially arrested about an hour after Sunday&#8217;s hit-and-run, by rookie cops who witnessed the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The officers had chased the hit-run tow truck from the scene, but lost it briefly. When they saw Morales parked a few blocks away in a similar vehicle, they suspected it was the same truck and he was the driver.<\/p>\n<p>While cops were trying to find proof, they were able to hold him on a DWI charge after his blood-alcohol level measured .096.<\/p>\n<p>Cops found the evidence they needed at a building near the crash scene. Tape from an elaborate video system showed the rookies pursuing the same truck they later found parked.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators then discovered paint transferred from tragic Anthony Delgado&#8217;s bicycle on the truck, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment that helped nail Morales was installed by drug dealers later busted by the feds.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it&#8217;s unlikely that Ray Kelly will tout this example: The gutless driver busted yesterday for mowing down a bike-riding Brooklyn teen was done in by a high-tech video surveillance system set up by drug dealers to protect the building they once used as their den, sources said. Melvin Morales, 34, was initially arrested about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}