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Niles' new cameras spot two stolen cars in two days

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Niles Police are praising the camera system being used to improve safety in the city, crediting them for identifying two stolen cars in two days.

The police department announced in a Facebook post this week that one of the city’s new Flock license plate readers on Flock cameras used by the city alerted officers to a vehicle that was entered into the national crime computer as being stolen from Youngstown.

Police Chief Jay Holland spotted the stolen vehicle downtown and pulled it over along Robbins Ave.

The chief arrested 40-year-old Harold W. Michaels of Youngstown on a charge of receiving stolen property.

 

Harold Michaels

One day before, a Flock license plate reader camera alerted officers to a vehicle that was entered stolen into the national crime computer from Detroit.

Police pulled the car over at Warren and Sayers Avenues.

Parris Jaray Daniels, 23 of Youngstown was booked into the Trumbull County Jail on a charge of receiving stolen property.

 

 

Parris Daniels

 The Facebook post says that the Flock cameras “have more than proved their worth in the short time they have been operational.”

Niles Police Captain John Marshall says the department is happy to have the cameras, solving several cases with relative ease because of the ability to have that information at hand.

Niles City Council is buying a camera that will be installed at the Niles Greenway Bike Path trailhead located along Church Street off East State Street.

Canfield also uses the Flock camera system, and the City of Youngstown is thinking about getting the cameras.

Each camera costs $2,500 per year, $2,850 per camera the first year.  Installation, including poles for the camera, and software are all included.


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