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Investigation: Burglar Uses Personal Info Sold by Minnesota to Target Victims

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Dissent

Megan Newquist reports:

Imagine a burglar stalking his victims and taking pictures of their cars in parking lots, knowing their whereabouts and then breaking into their homes.

Eden Prairie police say that’s exactly what 45-year-old David William Pollard was doing, but they didn’t know how until he was arrested leaving a Minnetonka home on April 14.

[…]

Inside Pollard’s car that night, police found a slew of stolen property. In addition, police say they uncovered how Pollard was able to find his victims – through a subscription-based online account that allowed him to look up individuals by their license plate numbers.

Read more on WDAZ.

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