{"id":146616,"date":"2026-02-01T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:00:10","slug":"dallas-police-use-license-plate-reader-to-bust-stolen-mercedes-mail-theft-suspect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146616\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Use License Plate Reader To Bust Stolen Mercedes, Mail Theft Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers with the Northeast Crime Response Team arrested a suspect connected to a stolen vehicle and uncovered evidence of additional criminal activity following a proactive response in Northeast Dallas last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/01\/31\/great-work-by-the-northeast-crime-response-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According<\/a> to police, officers responded January 29 to a FLOCK license plate reader alert identifying a stolen Mercedes GLE that had been reported stolen from Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport. Officers located the vehicle near the intersection of Audelia Road and Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the suspect, identified as Loi Lien, 35, was found asleep inside the vehicle and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an inventory search of the vehicle, officers located property belonging to Lien. A subsequent search of that property revealed evidence connected to additional criminal activity involving mail theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said the evidence gathered by Northeast Crime Response Team officers was turned over to U.S. Postal Inspectors and directly assisted an ongoing federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police credited the officers\u2019 detailed work with helping support another agency\u2019s case and demonstrating effective interagency cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lien was transported to the Dallas County Jail and charged with the following offenses:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Possession of Identifiers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Unlawful Use of a Criminal Instrument<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Possession of a Controlled Substance, Penalty Group 1, under 1 gram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Theft warrant from Collin County<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers with the Northeast Crime Response Team arrested a suspect connected to a stolen vehicle and uncovered evidence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,20908,104,103,401,3862,13091,61223,2396,61222],"class_list":{"0":"post-146616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-county-jail","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport","14":"tag-mail-theft","15":"tag-mercedes-gle","16":"tag-stolen-vehicle","17":"tag-vehicle-search"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}