Originally Posted by
ryan1234
There's a lot of stuff in this case I just don't get. The airplane was claimed to be stolen 9 years ago. That would be like if someone told a cop...."hey, here's the tag to a car stolen nine years ago - have fun!"
Not only that but - a 9 year old case...wouldn't the CBP/DEA handle that one...especially involving aircraft?
...could be wrong, but don't LEOs generally run car tags through the respective agency that issues the registration, which should have been done here...especially considering it was second time in a year it's happened to the same aircraft. The LEOs themselves may not have been at fault, but surely the leadership was.
No doubt the leadership did not give them the information to work with - failure. In your example above it is exactly the agency that tells the cops that the car tag is reported stolen that told this department that there was a problem to begin with from what I understand.
But the question here was the actions of the police officers and their actions on the scene.
In your example above - the officer's responding to the airport would have been told - the plane has the same registration of one reported to be stolen 9 years ago and it was misidentified just last year. Now go get them. In that case the reaction MIGHT NOT have been the same.
I think a better example with yours above is to leave out the 9 year part and just let them know that it was a suspected stolen car possibly being used by drug runners.
USMCFLYR