iPod Recoveries Can Uncover Larger Crimes
Sunday, November 4, 2007
In the recent recovery of an iPod in Dublin, Ohio for one of our subscribers, it was not just our subscribers property that was discovered. In addition several other stolen items were found.
In Australia during a recent drug bust 1,500 ecstasy tablets were found along with a weapons cache and several stolen iPods. It appears an outlaw motorcycle gang were responsible for the crimes, which appear to have been going on for quite some time. If GadgetTrak were installed on just one of those stolen iPods and the police followed up with the recovery, they could have discovered criminals much earlier on.
It is estimated that 5% of the time, when law enforcement go to recover stolen property they uncover larger crimes being commited, be it larger property crimes, weapons caches, drugs or more. With the data that GadgetTrak provides, law enforcement will have the evidence they need to get specific address details from Internet Service Providers and mobile phone carriers from where the devices are sending signals from.
