Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The night manager at a University City, Mo., tow truck service used a global positioning system locater to chase down a stolen truck and nab an alleged thief. Michael Filius, the night manager of Hartmann Towing and a former corrections officer, said he was inside the garage at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday when he noticed that he could no longer hear the truck he had left idling outside, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. Advertisement Filius said the theft surprised and angered him to the point where he decided to track the vehicle down before it could be stripped by the thieves. He switched on the truck's GPS and contacted AAA to have the service monitor the truck's location and give him updates on his cell phone. He said he saw two men who appeared to be in their 30s flee from the truck when he approached it, and he managed to run the vehicle off the road and kept the driver from fleeing until police arrived. Police cautioned that victims of car theft should phone the authorities instead of setting out to find the vehicles on their own. However, Filius said he was fed up with criminals. Advertisement "I have to see these little hoodlums every day," he said. "There's a point I'm not going to take it anymore."
