But they did get the license plate number and later tracked the vehicle to him, the traffic spokeswoman said.
Turns out it's not so easy to look up someone's home address based on his license plate number in California.
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Things would stay simple when the vehicle is moving, and the license plate number would remain visible at all times.
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The customer also got a license plate number, and investigators later traced the plate to Behbehanian's residence, Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson said.
In addition to knowing their cellular phone number, one could then learn the make and model of their car and perhaps their license plate number and perhaps their home address.
The Cockaynes said police had the names of the suspects, including a description and license plate number of the getaway car, for more than six weeks, yet no one was arrested.
At the very least, if the vindictive man in the Range Rover had had the presence of mind to write down her license plate number, she might still hear from the police.
Perhaps he wrote down my license plate number and is heading home to use the 'net to find my home address to torture me for weeks while setting my cats free and eating all my food.
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Lookouts for La Familia had been noting our passage, calling in our license-plate number, for the past twenty miles, according to my companions, a regional official named Veronica Medina, as I will call her, and Isaac Reyes, a journalist for an online agency.
They are being supported by dog handlers and officers with access to Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.
Officers believe forensic analysis of the video images may reveal part or all of the vehicle's number plate.
Police have also revealed details of the number plate of the red Suzuki Swift car the pair were in.
Cameras using number plate recognition technology would be used to catch motorway users who had not paid the higher rate.
Police patrols using speed cameras and number plate recognition will be stationed on major roads including the M5, M4, M32 and A303.
In the TV series The Persuaders, international playboy Brett Sinclair, 15th Earl of Marnock, drove an Aston Martin DBS with the number plate BS 1.
He said the "amateurish attempt" to change the car's number plate with masking tape was more consistent with vehicle crime than violent crime.
Other proposed measures include selling the mayoral number plate - TR1 - and the car, which could be replaced it with an electric one provided to the council free.
They said the vehicle they were looking for would have a number plate with 52, 03, 53, 04, 54, 05, 55, 06, 56, 07 or 57 in it, or a personalised registration.
Dr Melnick explained that to predict an earthquake's magnitude, seismologists multiply plate convergence rate by the number of years since the last great event.
The RFID chip can contain not only an identification number that works like a license plate, but also the product's expiration date.
No doubt politicians will argue that I'm wrong and there were a good number of scientists involved in constructing "My Plate, " but the facts speak for themselves: If government food recommendations came from science and not politics, the Department of Agriculture would have no role unless we needed cows to lose weight.
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Over the past 12 months, Lendio has seen a significant surge in the number of alternative lenders that are stepping up to the plate to fill in the funding gap and provide loans to small business owners.
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Mostly it's a matter of looking for procedural slipups--transposed license-plate digits or the wrong time of day--but a fair number of tickets are outright wrong.
The diner (now there's a grand word in this context) is offered a plate of rice cooked in coconut milk, onto which can be added any number of side dishes.
However, thanks to the number of tries they scored, Wales still qualified for the second-tier Plate competition.
Sure, the Nexus 4 could fill the void for a good number of people, but it's high time that others step up to the plate.
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