MASCOTTE, Fla. (TND) — Apparently one of those license plate readers in Florida solved another crime.

“I observed a silver vehicle that matched the description of a stolen vehicle that activated a license plate reader earlier in the evening,” a police officer wrote in the arrest report, last Wednesday, May 8.

The Toyota Avalon was at a convenience store parking lot and the apparent driver was inside, buying lottery tickets.

“I approached the male wearing a red shirt and dark pants,” the report said, “and advised that I needed to speak with him and was detained immediately.

“While walking to the patrol vehicle, he began to complain that he was claustrophobic and could not go in the back of my marked patrol vehicle.“He was then placed in the back of my marked patrol vehicle while I continued my investigation.”

The officer wrote that surveillance video showed Ernesto Estrada “pull into the parking spot in front of the store,” then get out of the car and walk inside.

Estrada didn't end up going straight to jail.

Paramedics “were dispatched due to Mr. Estrada complaining of stomach pain and being diabetic.“When EMS arrived on scene, Mr. Estrada requested to go to the hospital due to the pain in his stomach from a surgery he had undergone a few months prior.”

It wasn’t the first time he stopped at a hospital before being booked into jail.

The National Desk found Estrada wearing a hospital gown in one of his booking photos.

His arrest report from the evening of Dec. 2, 2019, said he and two other people were in a stolen car that was later abandoned.

“Responding units heard the suspects run south through adjacent farmland,” the report continued, “and a perimeter was set up around the patch of woods where the suspects were heard hiding.“Several loud commands to exit the woods were given to all three defendants. Upon the arrival of K9, the arrestee, Ernesto Estrada, Jr., surrendered.”

That night, he went to the hospital and then to jail.

Same story this time.

The car was towed and “a query of his criminal history” in the arrest report noted Estrada, 43, “was arrested once within the past six months and displayed several felony convictions for grand theft.”

This time, he was charged with grand theft auto and he spent six hours in jail until his release in lieu of $2,500 bond.

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