By Joe Johnson
A South Carolina couple were reunited with their missing daughter in Athens last week after she was located by police who were alerted to her vehicle being in town by Automated License Plate Recognition technology.
On November 18 an analyst in the Real Time Crime Center of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department notified patrol officers that an ALPR camera on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway had “hit” on a Ford Explorer out of Anderson, S.C., that reportedly was being driven by a missing 16-year-old girl.
An officer stopped the truck on East Washington Street and notified the Anderson Police Department that he had located the girl.
After calling her parents, the officer drove the girl to the downtown police station, where she remained until the parents arrived.