Kearney Police identify suspects in string of Cabela’s thefts
Kearney Police have submitted arrest warrants for two suspects accused of making a series of high-dollar thefts from Cabela’s stores.
By News Channel NebraskaKEARNEY, Neb. — Kearney Police have submitted arrest warrants for two suspects accused of making a series of high-dollar thefts from Cabela’s stores.
Police say officers responded to a shoplifting report at the Kearney Cabela’s on Jan. 6. According to a news release, the suspects took more than $11,000 worth of high-end electronics.
Officers used the city’s automated license plate reader system to identify the suspects as 31-year-old Reed Auten of Lincoln and 33-year-old Lynden Winfree of Omaha. Officers submitted the felony arrest warrants on Jan. 16.
According to the release, investigators used the nationwide FLOCK license plate reader system to discover that the pair conducted similar thefts at Cabela’s stores in St. Louis MO, Kansas City, MO, Altoona IA, Council Bluffs IA, and La Vista, NE.
“This is an exceptional example of good old-fashioned police work meeting the responsible use of 21st-century, advanced policing technology toward clearing a felony property crime and most likely a crime ring covering multiple jurisdictions in the mid-west,” Police Chief Bryan Waugh said in a statement.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these two wanted subjects is asked to contact 911 or the City of Kearney/Buffalo County Crime Stoppers at 308-237-3424.