# Thieves caught hours after stealing GPS tracking devices from tech company

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**Created:** [June 29, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thieves-caught-hours-after-stealing-gps-tracking-devices-from-tech-company/790167 "2017-06-29T23:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thieves-caught-hours-after-stealing-gps-tracking-devices-from-tech-company/790167/1 "2017-06-29T23:18:42Z")

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[A minor but amusing story](http://nbc4i.com/2017/06/07/thieves-caught-hours-after-stealing-gps-tracking-devices-from-tech-company/).

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> “These devices kind of look like cell phone chargers, so they probably thought they had some kind of street value,” Roambee Corporation Co-Founder Vidya Subramanian.
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> Subramanian is talking about the hundred or so GPS tracking devices that were stolen recently from the company’s Dela Cruz Avenue labs.
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> “The moment we realized they had a box of trackers, we went into recovery mode,” Subramanian said. “We notified the police and equipped them to track the devices, and in about 5 or 6 hours, it was done.”

I can see it now, “How did they find us?! It’s like they can follow our every move!”