GOT 'EM: Bait car nets car thieves in middle of joyride

Thursday, August 17, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KTRK) -- A camera hidden in the dashboard of a so-called "bait car" captured the two people accused of stealing it for a joyride last month.

Reported by TV station KOAT, police in New Mexico released footage recorded during the alleged theft and joyride around downtown Albuquerque on July 16.
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Audio picks up suspect Dominic Pack telling his cohort, Kaycee Langston, "I love you."

Pack also makes the unusual-for-the-moment request to Langston: "Put your seatbelt on please. Thank you."

Later in the joyride, though, the car shuts off, which is a standard action of a bait vehicle, and locks the driver's side door.

The passenger door wasn't locked at that point and the two make their escape, albeit briefly. The couple was arrested almost immediately.
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