LOL, the one technology item you shouldn't steal!

[ehh]

I just heard on WCBS880 that a group of Lindenhurst men stole 14 GPS devices from a Babylon store.

So the cops simply turned on the devices and followed them to the man's home where they were located and made arrests.

I'm trying to find a link for this brilliant crime........

[Stu]

Re: LOL, the one technology item you shouldn't steal!

I just heard on WCBS880 that a group of Lindenhurst men stole 14 GPS devices from a Babylon store.

So the cops simply turned on the devices and followed them to the man's home where they were located and made arrests.

I'm trying to find a link for this brilliant crime........

Haha what an idiot.

We just had somebody steal their laptop and busted them in a similar way. They reported it stolen to the police so we activated our Computrace system (that none of our users knew existed) which basically tells the laptop to call in whenever it accesses the internet. Sure enough, they tracked down the IP and it was at the guy's house. Needless to say, he's no longer employed.

[skitch]

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LOL, idiots.

[Graphik]

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Haha what an idiot.

We just had somebody steal their laptop and busted them in a similar way. They reported it stolen to the police so we activated our Computrace system (that none of our users knew existed) which basically tells the laptop to call in whenever it accesses the internet. Sure enough, they tracked down the IP and it was at the guy's house. Needless to say, he's no longer employed.

Hmm...thanks for this vital piece of info. My sticky fingas have been eyeing a laptop. Not from work but from one of the many other buildings I frequent.

[MassNole]

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Haha what an idiot.

We just had somebody steal their laptop and busted them in a similar way. They reported it stolen to the police so we activated our Computrace system (that none of our users knew existed) which basically tells the laptop to call in whenever it accesses the internet. Sure enough, they tracked down the IP and it was at the guy's house. Needless to say, he's no longer employed.

Note to self: Don't steal a lap top from wherever you work.

[Gilateen]

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Hmm...thanks for this vital piece of info. My sticky fingas have been eyeing a laptop. Not from work but from one of the many other buildings I frequent.

What?!?! You?



Crime dont pay!!!

[Graphik]

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What?!?! You?



Crime dont pay!!!

"Sometimes I just like to steal"-Chris Rock

[CaptainZombie]

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I just heard on WCBS880 that a group of Lindenhurst men stole 14 GPS devices from a Babylon store.

So the cops simply turned on the devices and followed them to the man's home where they were located and made arrests.

I'm trying to find a link for this brilliant crime........

What a dummy, LOL!

[SPTO]

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Hmm kinda reminds me of the one chick who was known as the Cell Phone robber. She'd go into a bank and look like she was preoccupied on the cell phone and hold up the bank.

I don't know if she was ever caught but you'd think something like that can be easily traced.

[Pete1210]

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Here's a link to the article on Newsay.com, http://www.newsday.com/news/local/lo...sland-homepage

[Skerik]

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Even if they hadn't turned it on and been caught themselves (which was incredibly stupid btw), the devices would have been tracked eventually after they were turned on by their new owners and the sale would have eventually been tracked to these guys.

Yeah, not a real great item to steal....

[ehh]

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To make it easy.....

Three Lindenhurst residents found out the hard way that it's not a good idea to steal global positioning system devices from the Town of Babylon.

Within hours of the theft, police used the devices' technology to track the thieves back to their homes and arrest them.

Babylon officials said they noticed Tuesday morning that 14 GPS devices had been stolen the night before from vehicles in the Department of Public Works storage yard on Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst.

The town tapped its GPS system, which uses satellite technology to pinpoint a vehicle's location. The system showed one of the devices was inside a house at 234 Heathcote Rd. When police arrived Tuesday evening at the residence, they said Kurt Husfeldt, 46, was holding the device.

Husfeldt, whose criminal record includes two convictions for possession of a controlled substance and one for driving under the influence, was charged with criminal possession of stolen property. His 13-year-old son also was arrested on grand larceny charges. Town officials said the boy committed the burglary with Steven Mangiapanella, 20, of 110 S. 2nd St., Lindenhurst, who was arrested Wednesday and also charged with grand larceny.

Town officials said the group thought the GPS devices, which resemble cell phones, were only phones and planned to sell them.

"What they didn't realize was that they stole GPS tracking devices," town supervisor Steve Bellone told Newsday. "I think this is going to serve as a deterrent in breaking in to try to steal vehicles or other things."

The town installed 300 GPS devices in snow plows, dump trucks, street sweepers and other vehicles in January 2006.

Police and Babylon officials were able to track one of the devices because the thieves were using it to make calls, said Lt. Thomas Kelly, of the First Precinct's Community Oriented Police Enforcement unit.