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Police use GPS system to find stolen car
(Times-News (Burlington, NC) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 20--GRAHAM -- A man accused of taking a woman's car was charged Thursday after authorities tracked him down with the Global Positioning System in the vehicle.
Chris Davis Whitted, 37, of Mount Zion Road, Mebane, who has a criminal record dating back to 1991 and was considered an "absconder" by the N.C. Department of Correction, spent Wednesday evening watching movies with two women at a duplex on West Market Street in Graham.
Everyone eventually fell asleep during the movies. When the woman who lived at the duplex woke up, she noticed that her friend's Chevrolet Malibu and the keys were gone, said Graham police Lt. Brad Shirley.
The owner of the car immediately called Whitted.
"He wouldn't admit he had the car," Shirley said. "He wouldn't tell them where he was at. There were several phone calls between them." The car owner contacted Graham police at about 2:15 p.m. Thursday to report the car stolen. The car was equipped with a GPS, and Graham police contacted Dealers Services Corp., the company that installed the system, and were able to get a location of the vehicle, Shirley said.
The car was located at Woodville Acres in the Green Level area, and an Alamance County sheriff's deputy went to the address. Whitted was allegedly standing near the car when the deputy arrived.
"When the deputy got out and approached Whitted, he fled into a residence and tried to hide in a bathtub," Shirley said.
Whitted was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle by Graham police. He also was wanted by the Department of Correction for a parole violation and is being held in Alamance County jail without bond, Shirley said.
Whitted was convicted in December 2005 on habitual felon, possession of a schedule II controlled substance and possession of stolen goods charges. He was given a minimum prison sentence of three years eight months, and he was released in October and placed on parole for a year, according to the DOC Web site.
In the past, he also was convicted of speeding to elude arrest, possession of a firearm, common law robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, driving while impaired, forgery, failure to appear and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, according to the DOC Web site.
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