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Posted by Monty Solomon on November 4, 2007, 1:34 am
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Tracking Thieves, or Teens
Technology, the Stealthy Tattletale
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
The New York Times
October 27, 2007
Initially, it seemed like an easy bank robbery. After stealing $7,000
from a PNC Bank in Evendale, Ohio, Kenneth Maples climbed into a
white Ford pickup driven by his wife, Jewell, according to a police
report. No dye pack exploded, no police sirens screamed in pursuit as
the couple's truck slipped into the anonymity of heavy traffic on
Interstate 71 just after 10 a.m. on Sept. 14.
But the suspects never had a chance. A Global Positioning System
tracking device had been tucked inside the stolen cash, according to
the report, allowing a small army of local police officers and F.B.I.
agents to follow the signal from on-ramps and overpasses as it moved
south into downtown Cincinnati.
Police put up a roadblock, closing five lanes of traffic. As hundreds
of vehicles stopped, police converged on the suspects' truck, sitting
just five cars behind the police line.
"It was incredibly precise," said Mark Fisk, a Cincinnati resident
who photographed the arrest from his delivery van, three cars behind
the suspects.
A technological revolution is making it possible not just to track
down escaping bank robbers but to find missing things and people far
more quickly and precisely than ever.
The change is powered less by new technologies than the artful
combination of existing ones, mainly the Internet, cellphones and
G.P.S. satellites. In some cases, the new devices linked to these
systems can even detect a theft before it happens.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/technology/27tracking.html?ex=1351137600&en=8d6b9fafbd080801&ei=5090
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