{"id":18602,"date":"2015-08-28T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2015-08-29T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:36:24","slug":"ars-technica-license-plate-reader-led-police-to-man-who-killed-reporter-cameraman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18602","title":{"rendered":"Ars Technica: License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/08\/license-plate-reader-led-police-to-man-who-killed-reporter-cameraman\/\">License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman<\/a> by David Kravets (&#8220;As soon as it was entered, it came up with a positive hit.'&#8221;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man who authorities said infamously killed two Virginia television journalists Wednesday was tracked down by police via license plate reader technology, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>A Virginia state trooper told a news conference Wednesday that she hit Vester Lee Flanagan&#8217;s plate number on her first try along Interstate 66 around 11:20am ET. &#8220;As soon as it was entered, it came up with a positive hit that that vehicle just passed me less than three minutes earlier,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I let my dispatch know that the vehicle has passed me and I attempted to catch up with the vehicle, which was travelling eastbound on 66.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica: License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman by David Kravets (&#8220;As soon as it was entered, it came up with a positive hit.&#8217;&#8221;): The man who authorities said infamously killed two Virginia television journalists &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18603,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions\/18603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}