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Find my iPhone leads to arrests
Posted: 14 Sep 2012, 21:40
by Stuart
Apple’s iPhone has had its crime-fighting capabilities detailed before, but a new story today out of Atlanta (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) has its Find My iPhone feature helping to catch two suspects in an armed robbery case. After five women were held up at gunpoint near the Biltmore Hotel last night in the Georgia state capital, police tracked one of their stolen iPhones to an apartment and nabbed the suspects.
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Re: Find my iPhone leads to arrests
Posted: 15 Sep 2012, 12:10
by Anakha56
And in other news... Find my license plate leads to arrests of multiple people ramming a SUV into a iStore.
http://gizmodo.com/5943040/crazy-footag ... pple-store
Crazy Footage of Robbers Driving Through the Glass Door of an Apple Store
Okay! This is nuts. These dumb idiots broke through the glass facade of a Los Angeles Apple store with A BMW SUV to rob its iPads, iPods, and iPhones. And were nabbed red-handed because the license plate got stuck in the metal grating.
The pair pled not-guilty to multiple felonies in court yesterday, which on the one hand driving an expensive SUV into the mouth of an Apple store sounds very fun and cathartic but on the other hand holy crap that footage is insane.
Follow the link for the crash vid...
Re: Find my iPhone leads to arrests
Posted: 17 Sep 2012, 10:12
by StarBound
Except the car logic can easily backfire if they stole the car. The phone logic on the other hand is "What are you doing with someone elses phone?".