‘Find My iPhone’ foils thieves once again

You might think that smartphone thieves would be smarter by now.

Not so, according to this account of a robbery early Sunday morning from the Boston Police Department:

While en route to the scene, officers received a description of a male suspect accompanied by a female who had attacked and “pistol whipped” a victim. … Officers were additionally informed that the suspects had stolen a purse and two cellphones. Using the “Track My iPhone” (sic) app from one of the officers’ cellphones, the officers and the victims were able to track one of the stolen phones to the area of Bushnell and Van Winkle Streets, where the phone appeared to be traveling along the path of the MBTA Red Line trolley route toward Mattapan Square.

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