This is just the story of someone whose bicycle was stolen and they couldn’t get the cops to actually do anything about it until they searched for someone else’s stolen iPad and the bicycle was found at the thief"s house.[INDENT]
Fortunately for Rosa, the Darlings were also allegedly fencing electronics, allowing the owner of a stolen iPad to track his missing tablet to the same apartment via an iPhone app connected to his iPad’s GPS. This gave police probable cause. On November 2, 2012, two weeks after the Maryland buyer tipped off Rosa, the cops served a warrant to search the Darlings’ apartment and adjacent shed, which allegedly turned up, in addition to methamphetamines, a trove of merchandise that required more than three police vans to haul away, including DJ equipment, electronic pianos, scuba gear, a saddle, Tiffany jewelry, and a Rolex watch. Oh, and under a tarp in the yard, a pile of bicycles.
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Well, now we know that all you need to do is leave your iPad outside of their house. Who can resist picking up someone’s iPad? Well this iPad has tracking software and as soon as it’s inside the house in question, now you get your warrant.
Maybe there’s something easier than that?
The lesson here is never commit a crime involving a device that has tracking capabilities.
I’ve read that in modern police investigations pulling cell phone records has become as routine as dusting for fingerprints.
Leave your iPad outside their house and file a false police report claiming it has been stolen. Yep, easy as pie.
Except that the crooks have a camera monitoring their home and now have you on video camera as deliberately putting your iPad outside their home
Loach
August 25, 2016, 4:22pm
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Little_Nemo:
The lesson here is never commit a crime involving a device that has tracking capabilities.
I’ve read that in modern police investigations pulling cell phone records has become as routine as dusting for fingerprints.
No it’s not routine. Some information needs a grand jury subpoena. Some information needs a full search warrant which is a pain in the ass. None of the information is just given to the police from the cellphone companies.
DrCube
August 25, 2016, 6:52pm
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Right, they set up their own cell towers, and collect all the data themselves.
The use of stingrays by United States law enforcement is an investigative technique used by both federal and local law enforcement in the United States to obtain information from cell phones by mimicking a cell phone tower. The devices which accomplish this are generically known as IMSI-catchers, but are commonly called stingrays, a brand sold by the Harris Corporation.
The United States Federal government has had access to stingray-type technology since at least 1995. The Baltimore Police Depar...
