UK Police Catch Fugitives with Promise of Free Beer

[JohnnyHopkins]

How come they didn't think of this sooner? :laugh2:

"Police have arrested 19 suspects after fooling them into ringing officers by promising free beer if they got in touch.
In an undercover operation, Derbyshire Police sent letters to dozens of people who had evaded arrest for several months.

They were asked to ring a marketing company to collect a free crate of beer.

A total of 19 suspects fell for the hoax and called the number, which put them straight through to Chesterfield Police Station.

A time and date was arranged for the free alcohol to be delivered but instead the suspects were arrested."

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16108261

 

[tupperware]

I don't understand it. If they could get in touch with them in the first place, shouldn't they have been able to arrest them already?

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

I don't understand it. If they could get in touch with them in the first place, shouldn't they have been able to arrest them already?

If I read it right, they suspects had been successfully been evading arrest, so the police sent a bogus "free beer" ad to their home address and waited for the suspects to come to them.

 

[Yeagermeister]

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[Chocolate Lab]

 

[Signals]

That's Nice!

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