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Technology Helps Locate Suspects In Construction Site Theft

Company Uses Tracking Device For Building Materials

Updated: 12:14 pm CST December 19, 2007

Madison police said that technology helped them arrest three people in connection with the theft of building materials from a construction site.

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Police said thieves swiped five boxes of aluminum siding from a Veridian home construction site in the Heather Glen neighborhood Saturday.

But along with the metal, police said the thieves also picked up a tracking device hidden inside the boxes.

Veridian has had so much trouble with aluminum thefts that the company hired a private investigator, WISC-TV reported.

"We got a call at about 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning that that container had been moved. That tracking device was hooked into a dispatching company and they contacted me, and we were able to work together in order to find that vehicle," said Steven Watson, a private investigator with Attoe-Watson & Co. Inc.

The tracking device led to an apartment on High Point Road where police arrested a 43-year-old Madison man and two teenage boys.

Investigators said the aluminum siding material was found strapped to the top of a van parked outside the apartment.

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