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Victim Of iPhone Theft Helps Police Catch Suspected Serial Thief

Article publisher: 
CBS 4
Article date: 
July 12, 2012
Article category: 
Colorado News
Medium
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A Denver woman helped police arrest a suspected electronics thief by using her iPhone app.

By using the Find my iPhone app — which utilizes a GPS tracking device — she tracked her phone to a Denver home ... when officers arrived at the location they found her phone, along with about a dozen others.  The resident, Luis Mena-Muro, 25, eventually told police “I took the phone.” ... (Police) say the man who stole it was a janitor at her building.

She still has concerns about what happened. “Somebody has access to our computers, all of our personal purses, and phones and everything you have in an office. That person has keycode access to all the floors,” Menon told CBS4.

Police say Luis Mena-Muro  is likely in the country illegally ...