Technology is making life a lot tougher for the average criminal. In the past, a mask and a quick set of feet were all a robber needed to get away with mugging someone on the street. While that still might work if they're only taking cash, thieves might want to let victims keep their iPhones.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, an unnamed man used the 'Find My iPhone' feature to help police track down his property and three suspects. The man was walking down a Pittsburgh street around 1 a.m. early Saturday morning when three men approached him, one brandishing a gun, and asked for his wallet, the PINs to his cards, and his iPhone. Immediately, the man called the bank to cancel his cards and the police to report the crime. When he got home later that morning, the man used his computer and his iPhone's GPS function to track the suspects to an area Walmart. That very day, police arrested the men at a nearby restaurant and charged them each with two counts of access device fraud, conspiracy, receiving stolen property, and possessing instruments of crime. Two of the suspects have been charged with robbery.
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Technology is making life a lot tougher for the average criminal. In the past, a mask and a quick set of feet were all a robber needed to get away with mugging someone on the street. While that still might work if they're only taking cash, thieves might want to let victims keep their iPhones.
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