SCC cameras have aided SCC Security in apprehending a person suspected of two car thefts on campus.
The thefts occurred in Building 5 on the SCC campus when the suspect broke into the lockers in the gym and stole the car keys of the two victims while they were working out.
The first victim was a student, the second was an employee of the college. The suspect for the car thefts was identified as a man named Thomas Clemmons.
“Lockers were broken into at the gym when people were working out. The suspect broke into the lockers and took the keys that were inside, walked around the parking lot and stole the cars,” Charlie Hollen, the head of campus security at SCC , said.“The thefts were barely a week apart.”
“The first theft occurred on March 4th , the second on March 12th.”
Tyler Aboles, a Campus Security officer at SCC, was one of the security officers who identified the thief.
“I was the one who followed up on the first theft, Anthony Imperial covered the second,” Aboles said. “The first car to be stolen was a Dodge Dakota and we looked at the security camera footage for the building and saw the same guy going into the locker room with both thefts.”
Aboles gives the credit of catching Clemmons to the security cameras.
“The cameras were what saved us, we would have been unable to catch him without them, and we’re lucky to have them,” Aboles said.
On March 13th a public notice bulletin was sent out by campus security asking for assistance in identifying a man in camera surveillance photos that was later revealed to be Clemmons.
Ken DeMello, the head of security for SFCC informed the sister campus of SCC that the suspect was caught. “The suspect was arrested later that day and booked into Spokane County Jail on March 14th “ DeMello said.
On March 14th another public notice was sent out stating that thanks to the information gathered from the victims and the images captured by the closed circuit television system in the athletic building the Spokane Police Department was able to positively identify and arrest the