Tesla Sentry Mode assisted police in locking up a theft suspect who was on the run from police for eight months.
In January, Korde Vann was identified as a suspect in a theft. He met up with a man named Tyler Murphy, who was also a business owner who repaired, sold, and refurbished gaming computers.
Murphy started a business, M Technologies, earlier this year.
Murphy met with Vann in January in the parking lot of a restaurant after the two had chatted about a transaction involving the computer. Vann took the $1,600 computer and ran off.
Murphy’s Tesla, which was operating with Sentry Mode, caught the whole thing on camera.
WKYT, a local news station in Lexington, Kentucky, reported on the story.
Vann was identified just weeks after the theft. He was arrested and released in February, but failed to show up for a court date in the Summer, which led to a warrant being issued for his arrest.
Sentry Mode images helped identify Vann as the suspect. Over this past weekend, he was arrested once again for disorderly conduct, local ordinance violations, resisting arrest, and failure to appear. He also had 25 fentanyl pills in his possession.
He pled not guilty.
Sentry Mode has been one of the most useful features for helping identify suspects in vandalism and other crimes. It has also been used to solve a variety of other criminal acts.
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Earlier today, we reported that Tesla is launching Sentry Mode Previews for Android users, which has finally arrived after many requests.
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