Police Arrest Suspect By Tracking Him Down Using Find My iPhone

Ane of the reasons why Apple tree's Find My iPhone app is and so constructive is because of the sheer number of people who are using iPhones out there, thus making it easier to create a network which can help ping each other's location. This is something that the Colorado law took advantage of when trying to track downwards a suspect.

The police initially discovered a pickup truck driven past the doubtable, who when questioned insisted that he was the suspect's brother. Withal, a mugshot and list of known tattoos confirmed he was the person the police were looking for, just when they tried to go him to come out of the truck, he drove through a security contend and fled the scene.

Even so, i of the deputies realized he had placed his iPhone on the truck'due south bed and by using Find My iPhone, they managed to runway the iPhone downward, and the truck equally well since the suspect had no idea that the phone was in the truck. They eventually tracked it down to an accost in Bedrock where they liaised with the Bedrock County Sheriff's Office where the suspect was eventually arrested, and where the deputy also somewhen retrieved his telephone.

This isn't the start time we're hearing nigh Apple tree'south Find My characteristic being used to track people down. Earlier this month, there was a story of how a group of thieves used an Apple tree Watch to runway a drug runner and stole $500,000 in greenbacks from him.

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