Opinion ID: 169079
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Heading: In a Separate Investigation, Police Find the Tow Truck

Text: 9 On July 10, 1999 — five days after the attempted Corvette theft — police officers in an unrelated investigation arrested Scott Cross for narcotics activity, theft, forgery, and using computers to facilitate the presentment of fraudulent checks. Cross was arrested in an Overland Park, Kansas, Econo Lodge motel room where he had set up his check forging operation. Police also found the stolen Amoco tow truck in the Econo Lodge parking lot. And they found a cardboard box in Cross's motel room containing paperwork belonging to the Amoco station where the tow truck was stolen. 1 10 During the interrogation following his arrest, Cross accused David Trammell of stealing the tow truck. Armed with this accusation but no physical evidence linking Trammell to the crimes, police prepared two separate photo arrays — both of which included Trammell's picture but not Cross's, despite the men's physical resemblance — and showed them to Loper, Kase, and Eglich. All three eyewitnesses identified Mr. Trammell as the tow truck driver. 11