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I passed three police cars stopped in the 1100 block of Felspar Street on the afternoon of January 5. I parked my car and as I walked toward them, two of the cars drove away. I asked the remaining officer, who was seated in the passenger side of his vehicle, what had happened.

“Stolen car,” he said about the white, two-door Toyota Solara.

“So, you were out doing your usual ticketing and just found it here?”

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“I was just out waving at citizens and helping little old ladies cross the street,” joked SDPD officer Nick Minx. I asked Minx how he learned the vehicle was a stolen one.

“The rear window was broken,” he said. “I ran the plates. When you see a car with a heavy layer of dirt — dew lines running down through it — there’s a good chance that when you run the plates it’s stolen.”

When I asked Minx what would happen to the car, he stated that the SDPD would attempt to locate the owner. If the car is not drivable, it would be kept in a secured lot until the owner could arrange to come and get it.

“How often would you say cars get stolen in PB?” I asked.

“Hard to say...I don’t have the statistics...but more than you’d think. I see this sort of thing all the time...especially in Mission Beach.”

I thanked Officer Minx for his time, and as he shook my hand, he said, “Day-in, day-out,” then paused before he continued, “wait, how do they say that...oh, yeah... “all in a day’s work.”

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I passed three police cars stopped in the 1100 block of Felspar Street on the afternoon of January 5. I parked my car and as I walked toward them, two of the cars drove away. I asked the remaining officer, who was seated in the passenger side of his vehicle, what had happened.

“Stolen car,” he said about the white, two-door Toyota Solara.

“So, you were out doing your usual ticketing and just found it here?”

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“I was just out waving at citizens and helping little old ladies cross the street,” joked SDPD officer Nick Minx. I asked Minx how he learned the vehicle was a stolen one.

“The rear window was broken,” he said. “I ran the plates. When you see a car with a heavy layer of dirt — dew lines running down through it — there’s a good chance that when you run the plates it’s stolen.”

When I asked Minx what would happen to the car, he stated that the SDPD would attempt to locate the owner. If the car is not drivable, it would be kept in a secured lot until the owner could arrange to come and get it.

“How often would you say cars get stolen in PB?” I asked.

“Hard to say...I don’t have the statistics...but more than you’d think. I see this sort of thing all the time...especially in Mission Beach.”

I thanked Officer Minx for his time, and as he shook my hand, he said, “Day-in, day-out,” then paused before he continued, “wait, how do they say that...oh, yeah... “all in a day’s work.”

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