{"id":20491,"date":"2023-10-26T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=20491"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:47:35","slug":"motorcycle-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/motorcycle-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo Police arrest 2 alleged motorcycle thieves thanks to tracking device"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Mateo police arrested two men on Saturday, October 21, 2023 for allegedly stealing two motorcycles in the city. The suspects allegedly used a red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that was caught on video transporting the stolen motorcycles. (SMPD via BCN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Bay City News<\/a>. <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to police, San Mateo officers arrested two suspected motorcycle thieves over the weekend after using a tracker attached to one of the motorcycles they allegedly stole.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, officers were alerted to a report of a man who said his two motorcycles were stolen from his private parking lot in the 400 block of East Hillsdale Boulevard, the San Mateo Police Department said in a news release Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officers spoke to witnesses and obtained video footage showing a red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck pulling up to the garage and leaving with the stolen motorcycles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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San Mateo police arrested two men on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, after they allegedly stole two motorcycles from an apartment garage in the city. (San Mateo Police Department via Bay City News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Officers later learned that the victim had placed a tracking device on one of the stolen motorcycles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the tracker, they located the stolen motorcycles in the 1300 block of Veterans Boulevard in South San Francisco around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working with South San Francisco police, San Mateo officers located the suspects, Matthew McGettigan and Floyd Cooper, and the red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck allegedly used in the crime.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McGettigan, 32, and Cooper, 37, were arrested and booked into the San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of first-degree robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle and vehicle theft. The stolen motorcycles were returned to the victim, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  Por Bay City News. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seg\u00fan la polic\u00eda, los agentes de San Mateo arrestaron a dos presuntos ladrones de motocicletas durante el fin de semana despu\u00e9s de usar un rastreador adjunto a una de las motocicletas que supuestamente robaron. El s\u00e1bado por la ma\u00f1ana, los oficiales fueron alertados sobre un informe de un hombre […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20494,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions\/20494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}