The guy went by “Mike”, a 60-ish skinny white man with glasses who was totally ex-hippie type material, what with his ponytail (if I remember correctly) and his druggie ways (getting high in a shopping center parking lot with other druggies).
He had 2 iPhones, one for personal use and one for his job, which was… something a few steps above a McJob, but not quite a corporate-office type job necessaritly (possibly worked for a security firm, like rent-a-cop services?)
I met him in San Jose, California in May of last year. I paid him a couple hundred for a ride to Southern California (offering to pay for gas on the way there), and, long story short, not only did he ditch me at a nearby Walmart, he also did so while my bags and iPhone were still in his BMW (he drove away with my things and without me, not even dumping my property out of his car so I could possibly collect them when I came out of the Walmart).
So- with the 4 digits of his license plate, his car year and model, and his location (plus physical description and possible name), is it possible to track this guy? I’ve watched quite a few P.I. videos on Youtube, but still, I’m no expert on this kind of thing.
Also, no you can’t find him with only the information provided. If his plates aren’t stolen and the car is his, the police can probably come up with a lot more info than you can.
Here’s the problem (and believe me, I have much experience in this area): since I voluntarily paid him the money, and voluntarily put my possessions in his car, what he did was not legally a “robbery” and I cannot press criminal charges. All I could do would be to file a civil suit, and even then, there’s no way to prove definitively that this occurred; and don’t forget, this was over a year ago, and all the way across the country from where I am now.
That’s not how that works. He stole your stuff. Call the police.
I understand what you’re saying. But tell the police he dropped you at a walmart and drove away with your stuff. You didn’t give or lend it to him. At best, you left it in his car by accident, but that wasn’t the case. He stole your stuff. Call the police.
Yes, can be done. Ask the police to do it. Some states have cracked down on license plate lookups, even restricting the police unless you file an official complaint of some kind that would warrant it. I think you have that, but why did you wait so long?
Remember, this was over a year ago and 3,000 miles from where I am now; I did call the police, and they basically shrugged and said the first 4 digits of his plate wasn’t enough (horse crap, but whaddayagonnado?)
That should definitely be enough to find him. There aren’t that many 2004 Beemers on the road relatively. A California car licence starting with 8KCV would have been issued in early 2017 so it’s not original to the car. Likely it was first registered in a different state and was transferred here so it’s very probably the only 2004 BMW that begins with that sequence. Unless that plate was stolen it would be trivially easy to find by law enforcement.
