{"id":499261,"date":"2026-10-17T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499261\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:06:55","slug":"man-who-smashed-oakland-county-license-plate-readers-to-pieces-pleads-guilty-to-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499261\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who smashed Oakland County license plate readers \u2018to pieces\u2019 pleads guilty to charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plate reader captured an image of the 24-year-old\u2019s vehicle and plate before it was smashed<\/p>\n

OAKLAND COUNTY \u2013 A 24-year-old Clarkston man accused of smashing several license plate readers \u201cto pieces\u201d in Oakland County had pleaded guilty to all charges issued in the case.<\/p>\n

Spencer Anderson was charged with three counts of malicious destruction of police property<\/a> after prosecutors say he forcibly broke the plate readers from their mounts and smashed them to pieces on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n

\"\"Spencer Anderson (Oakland County Jail)<\/p>\n

Although the license plate readers were damaged, police said one of the cameras was able to capture an image of Anderson\u2019s car and license plate first.<\/p>\n

Previous coverage->>He\u2019s accused of smashing Oakland County license plate readers. But 1 camera caught his car first<\/a><\/p>\n

Video footage from a nearby business also captured a person exiting the car and using a blunt instrument to hit two license plate cameras until they broke off their mounts. After further investigation, Waterford police arrested Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anderson entered a guilty plea during his final disposition at the Oakland County Circuit Court on Tuesday, though his attorney also filed a motion to dismiss two of the three counts.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s scheduled to be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorsJenny Sherman headshot\"\"Jenny Sherman<\/a><\/p>\n

Jenny Sherman is a digital news producer for ClickOnDetroit and a Michigan State University alumna. She previously worked as a reporter and editor for various metro Detroit news outlets including WDET – Detroit Public Radio, The Oakland Press, Macomb Daily, Planet Detroit and more. <\/p>\n

Samantha Sayles headshot\"\"Samantha Sayles<\/a><\/p>\n

Samantha Sayles is an Oakland University alumna who\u2019s been writing Michigan news since 2022. Before joining the ClickOnDetroit team, she wrote stories for WILX in Lansing and WEYI in Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plate reader captured an image of the 24-year-old\u2019s vehicle and plate before it was smashed OAKLAND COUNTY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[72679,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-499261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-automatic-license-plate-readers","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}