Suspect wondered if bait car a trap

From KRQE-TV.com - Sometimes you really should trust your instincts. Julia Marquez, 15, is probably telling herself that after she and Gabriel Romo, 35, were arrested by Albuquerque police on charges they stole an Albuquerque Police Department bait car set to trap would-be thieves. Surveillance video from inside the car shows Marquez had her suspicions about the car parked near Lafayette Driven NE and Comanche Road shortly after getting in around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. "I think it's a bait car," Marquez told Romo. Seconds later Marquez voices her doubts again, but Romo disagrees, Marquez acquiesces and the two drive off. They don't go far driving the car less than a block to the parking lot of the Villas Esperanza Apartments. "They were even saying where they should put the car so no one can see it or where the tow truck drivers wouldn't try to take it out of the property," APD Sgt. Donovan Olvera said. The fact that Marquez suspected the APD bait car was a bait car is something Olvera points to as a positive sign the program is working. "We want them to get to the point where they stare at a car and say that may be a bait car, 'I don't feel like going to jail today,'" Olvera said. Read more

Suspect wondered if bait car a trap