A Convicted Felon Tailgated Him Through Dangerous Mountain Roads, And When He Called 911 For Help, The Operator Said All The Police Officers Were Between Shifts
Years ago, this man worked as a surveillance investigator. He looked into insurance claims and people who reported work-related injuries.
He investigated people to ensure the people alleging to have been harmed on the job were telling the truth. Sometimes, people attempt to commit fraud to earn money when they haven’t been hurt at work.
Over a decade of full-time investigating, he witnessed strange things, especially since he was assigned a new case every few days.
On one occasion, he witnessed criminals riding on horses in the middle of downtown in a large city. Sketchy things happened in unsafe neighborhoods that terrified him.
The most terrifying situation happened 20 years ago. He was working a case in a fairly rural area, and these cases were usually the most difficult.
During the case, he had to arrive at the scene at 6 a.m., check the vehicles nearby, and run the license plates through their system to ensure they matched the person who filed the insurance claim.
“Then, you mostly watch for the registered vehicle to depart if you find one. This place had one car in the driveway with no plates, which was unusual,” he said.
“You are also provided the person’s age/height/weight and, in rare cases, a picture. So, I knew this was a guy in his mid-30s and was average height and weight.”
On the first day of this case, the man had left his house before he arrived at the area. The procedure entailed that he had to knock on the door if he couldn’t verify the person was home by 10 a.m. (four hours after arriving at the person’s home).
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When he did this, he acted like a UPS delivery driver, complete with a costume and an item purchased from a dollar store in an envelope and a clipboard, pretending he needed a signature. Shockingly, this scheme did the trick in the past, and people answered the door when he knocked.
This time, no one answered the door or was at the house. On the second day investigating this man, he arrived at 5 a.m.
Immediately, he saw a second car in the driveway. It was a truck that also didn’t have any license plates. This truck showed up at about 5:30 a.m. and drove off shortly afterward.
He decided to follow the truck, and the driver noticed right away that he was being followed. In these circumstances, this is often a sign that the person is committing insurance fraud and has filed for disability, even though they’re physically capable of working.
Since the person was onto him, he stopped tailing him and attempted not to be obvious that he’d been following him.
On the third day, he drove a different vehicle to the house, which he’d done during previous cases, so the people he was investigating didn’t get suspicious. The person left the house early in the morning, like the previous day, and he tailed him again.
“I successfully followed him to a farm in the neighboring rural hills. I busted him on video doing heavy-duty farm work for several hours,” he explained.
“He eventually caught on and realized he was being watched. I took off from my parked position and thought there was no way he could suddenly get off his tractor, run to his truck, and get to me, as there were driveways and a creek between us.”
All of a sudden, he realized the man made it to his truck in time to follow him. The man tailgated him as they drove on terrifying, dangerous rural roads in the mountains.
He was understandably afraid but continued driving and reached the highway without knowing where he was going as he drove through the mountains.
While driving on the highway, the man continued following him for miles, and he couldn’t lose him. Occasionally, the man pulled into the lane next to him, flexed his arm, and gestured for him to pull over. The man was intimidating and terrified him.
“I had evidence on him that would cost him in more ways than one. I called 911 and reported a drunk driver endangering me but was surprisingly told the officers were in between shifts and couldn’t help,” he shared.
“There was an easy pass bridge about 20 miles up if I got that far, and at first, I thought I could lose him there if he didn’t have the easy pass.”
Then, he remembered that the man had no license plates, so he realized it was irrelevant if the man had an easy pass or not.
Miles later, he was able to put some distance between his car and the man following him, but the man continued tailing him as close as he could get. Finally, he got off the highway and pulled into a gas station.
Luckily, he saw a police officer and reported the man following him in the truck. As the police officer made a phone call, he never saw the truck pull into the gas station.
A few minutes later, he got gas, went home, and wrote and submitted his report about the case. He assumed the man would no longer receive disability after the evidence he submitted.
After the incident, he was concerned the man would run his license plate in the same way he did while working these cases and find out his address.
Later, he did online research to see if the man had a criminal history. Over the years, he realized that people guilty of insurance fraud sometimes commit even worse crimes.
During his research, he discovered the man was a convicted felon and gang member who served time in federal prisons.
Even though he was terrified, nothing else happened involving this man over the next several years, and he didn’t think about the incident as much anymore.
Five years later, he was assigned a case near where this man lived, which made him think of the incident.
So, he Googled the man to see if there were any updates on his criminal history. He found out that the man died a couple of years ago after he took his girlfriend hostage.
During the crime, someone attempted to save the man’s girlfriend, but the man killed him. Another person then killed the man to save the woman.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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