Personal trainer busted breaking into client’s truck during workouts at Texas gym

Reginald Wilson, a City of Whitehouse police officer who works as a personal trainer, was arrested after a client, David Spivey, allegedly caught him breaking into his truck by placing a hidden camera in the backseat.

BY JOE KEMP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014, 9:31 AM
Reginald Wilson, a police officer who worked as a personal trainer, was arrested for breaking into a client’s car while at the gym and stealing money.

Reginald Wilson, a police officer who worked as a personal trainer, was arrested for breaking into a client’s pickup while he was busy working out at the gym.
What a dumbbell!

A Texas cop who works as a personal trainer was arrested after a client used a hidden camera to find the man allegedly breaking into his truck during workouts at the gym.

Footage from the hidden camera shows the bandit, identified by police as Reginald Wilson, breaking into Spivey’s truck and stealing money from the middle console.
Reginald Wilson — a police officer with the city of Whitehouse, about 100 miles southeast of Dallas — was busted after the victim, David Spivey, showed video of the burglary to local cops, KLTV reported.

“Who would have thought that somebody would go into my locker, get a key out and go in my truck?” Spivey told the news station. “Especially my trainer.”

David Spivey said he was wondering why items kept disappearing from inside his pickup, so he placed a camera in the backseat — and discovered his personal trainer was the culprit.
Spivey said he was suspicious that someone close to him was stealing items from his pickup, because the bandit never left any signs of forced entry.

He eventually set up a camera in the backseat of the cab while it was parked at the Woodcreek Athletic Club in Tyler to catch the crook red handed.

A friend parked next to Spivey’s truck also recorded Wilson breaking into the vehicle, which was parked at the gym.
“It took me a bunch of money to figure out it wasn’t a family member,” he told the news station. “A bunch of time, a bunch of patience and a bunch of good friends.”

Spivey also had a friend park next to the truck to keep watch.

David Spivey was working out at the Woodcreek Athletic Club in Tyler, Tex., when his personal trainer allegedly stole his truck keys from his locker and broke in.
As the camera inside Spivey’s truck recorded Wilson rummaging through the cab and pulling cash from the middle console, the friend recorded the break-in from outside.

Spivey brought the footage to cops, who arrested Wilson a short time later.

Wilson was jailed on two counts of burglary of a vehicle. He was suspended without pay from the Whitehouse Police Department.

Spivey said he was just happy to put the ordeal behind him.

“It is what it is,” Spivey said. “I can’t do anything about it. I’m just glad that it’s not happening anymore.”

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