HICKORY -- When reporting the crimes didn't stop the thieves, Tony Hawn, of Hickory, turned to technology, the Hickory Daily Record is reporting.
Frustrated by the repeated theft of scrap metal from his property, Hawn mounted a motion-activated camera on his property and caught the thief on video.
The video shows a white and grey Ford F150 pickup truck pulling into the frame. A ponytailed man wearing a high-visibility fluorescent green vest with reflective stripes and a red Chicago Bulls baseball hat gets out of the truck and comes into view. "We believe he's trying to appear that he's in some kind of official capacity," said Captain Joel Fish of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office as he watched the footage.
