Left Unlocked, Running, White Marsh Security Vehicle Stolen
Police arrested the suspected car thief in Perry Hall shortly after the incident on July 8.
UPDATE (1:10 p.m., July 12)—A Baltimore man was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with stealing a security vehicle in White Marsh.
At about 1:10 a.m. on July 8, a female security guard with U.S. Security Associates, Inc. walked away from her vehicle, a Toyota Rav4, near The Avenue at White Marsh. The vehicle was left unlocked, running and with the key in the ignition, according to a police report.
The vehicle had been left running to stay cool in the "oppressive heat," according to Lt. Ron Brooks of the White Marsh police precinct.
The guard returned to find the vehicle missing and contacted police. Officers located the vehicle near Honeygo Boulevard and Belair Road and pursued it to Walter Avenue in Perry Hall, Brooks said.
Officers arrested Robert Allan Insley, 23, of the 3800 block of Frankford Avenue in Baltimore and charged him with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, theft less than $100, failure to obey a traffic device and attempting to elude police, court records show.
Brooks urged drivers not to leave vehicles unlocked or running, and said it is a traffic violation to do so.
jessica winberry
9:56 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
i don't know who is more of a dolt...the security officer or the thief?
Timothy Gerhard
9:57 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
sounds like a scene from the movie POLICE ACADMEY, thats why you have cops and rent a cops, i feel sorry for her, i wonder if she still has a job.
Tim
10:03 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
L.M.A.O.
good going, rent-a-mall-cops
Gomer Pyle
10:07 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Sounds like something my pal Barney Fife would do. I guess she will now be on foot patrol if she still has a job.
Tim
12:46 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
now THAT would be a fun punishment without firing her. She's probably overweight anyway. Make her patrol the mall parking lots on foot for a couple weeks. She'll lose weight, and I bet it'll never happen again.
Tracey
12:16 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
I have left the car with the A/C running, doors locked, and smart key in my pocket. no one is going anywhere without the key.
FIFA_archived
2:52 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
You apparently have the solution for all those people without air conditioning last week. Live in your cars and turn on the a/c. How soft we have become.
DS
1:28 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
That is kinda funny - probably a drunk coming out of one of the bars.
Tim
2:15 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Sweet, valet service!
Other Tim
2:28 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
"unlawful taking of a motor vehicle".
Whatever happened to "car theft"?
Is this what our General Assembly does while in session- inventing new names for crimes that don't sound quite so harsh?
John Doe
2:52 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
...it was originally called "inexcusable impolite acquisition of a high-performance automobile apparatus."
Mike Pierce
3:31 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
I love the claim that the motor was left running because of the "oppressive heat." At 1:10AM?
Spring Heeled Jack
12:28 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
I just checked the temp at that time from NOAA. It was ~78 degrees. LOL! Those security people at the Avenue are well.... you know they are a joke when the Avenue and Mall have uniformed Baltimore County Police patrolling on foot every evening.
Rose
8:53 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
I long for the good old days, when nobody locked their cars. Were we just better people back then?
Evets
9:54 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
We were a better culture then, I believe. We talked to each other (in person, not on a phone constantly attached to our ears), knew our neighbors, spent more time outdoors, etc. Not everything about the 'good old days' was good, but we certainly were more polite to each other in most ways.
Tim
10:14 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
My view, as someone who is in between the culture of the one you speak of, and the one of 'kids' today, is that it's a combination of Evets view, and the fact that the internet reports EVERYTHING now.
I'd argue that your era was blissfully ignorant to the world around you, in many ways that people today no longer are. More knowledge is good, but comes with negatives.
Rose
8:55 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
PS. Of course, most cars didn't have AC back then. Ya rolled down the windows & prayed for a breeze & no red lights.
John Doe
10:43 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
How true!
jack amrhein
11:30 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
iIve always had a question about those mall security cars- 1 obvious answer is so that people can locate and go to them when they need help That being said, the question is, how much surveilance and security are they really providing if they ride around with yellow flashing lights on? If i were a car thief or a shoplifter etc, i think id use the lights to know where they are, and to go a different way, or to duck down in the car im stealing til they drive past. Always seemed to me that they would be able to see more, if they were seen less...just my 2 cens worth...