“A police officer with the University of Illinois at Chicago used an Apple iPhone app to help Chicago police track down two men believed responsible for a spree of home invasions over the weekend,” Rosemary Sobol reports for The Chicago Tribune.
“Authorities charged Aaron Smith, 22, of South Bend, Ind., with six counts of home invasion and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, according to Chicago police. His alleged accomplice, Joe Parker, 20, of the 5500 block of South Aberdeen Street, was charged with three counts of home invasion,” Sobol reports. “Police said they have tied Smith and Parker to three separate home invasions — two on the North Side and one in the in the University Village neighborhood — all occurring Saturday. Police said the two suspects pistol-whipped a woman and two men and ordered them into a bathroom at gunpoint while they stole an iPhone and others items at a home invasion in the 1100 block of West 13th Street.”
Sobol reports, “The break in the case came when a UIC police officer, who was assisting Chicago officers, used a GPS monitoring application on one of the victims’ phones and tracked the home invaders.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Whit D.” for the heads up.]