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.
The RFID chip can contain not only an identification number that works like a license plate, but also the product's expiration date.
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.
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