By Bay City News.
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.
On Saturday morning, officers were alerted to a report from 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. this Tuesday.
Officers spoke with witnesses and obtained video footage showing a red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck pulling into the garage and leaving with the stolen motorcycles.
Officers then learned that the victim had placed a tracking device on one of the stolen motorcycles.
Thus, using the tracker, they located the stolen motorcycles in the 1300 block of Veterans Boulevard in south San Francisco around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, police said.
Along with South San Francisco police, San Mateo officers found the suspects, Matthew McGettigan and Floyd Cooper, and the red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck allegedly used in the crime.
McGettigan, 32, and Cooper, 37, were arrested and booked into 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.
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