By Elizabeth Evans
The York Dispatch
YORK, Pa. — Officers arrested a Conewago Township man after he tried to steal a speed-timing device in Manchester Township Wednesday.
Daniel Ramsey, 51, of 1235 Bremer Road, is being charged with theft and receiving stolen property, according to Northern York County Regional Police, who were running the speed-enforcement detail.
Police said three officers were running the detail on North George Street near Hayshire Drive about 6:35 p.m. when Ramsey drove up in his pickup truck, grabbed the ENRADD device and started walking to his truck with it.
As officers approached him, he put down the device and tried to leave, but was arrested, police said. Ramsey told officers he thought the ENRADD was trash, police said.
ENRADD, short for electronic non-radar device, costs about $1,200, police said. It works by shooting two infrared light beams across the road. As a vehicle break the beams, the device calculates the vehicle’s speed, police said.
It’s the second time someone has allegedly tried to steal Northern Regional’s ENRADD. On March 10, Joaquin Sierra-Abrew of York City grabbed the device and put it in his truck, but was arrested, police said. Because the device is aluminum, it could be sold as scrap metal, police said.
Police said a Conewago Twp. man was arrested after officers saw him try to steal the speed-timing device they’d set up along North George Street in Manchester Township.
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