Stolen iPhone leads police to drug, guns

[graylocks]

at some point maybe thieves who aren't smart enough to wipe the phone immediately will at least stop stealing iphones.

A stolen cell phone literally led Marietta police to an apartment that contained a large stash of drugs and guns early Tuesday.

Police seized the drugs and weapons -- including 1,100 grams of marijuana, five handguns, three of which were stolen; an assault rifle; 42 tablets of Oxycodone and a digital scale -- from the Autumn View Apartments, 1035 Franklin Road, said Marietta police spokesman Officer David Baldwin.

They made the bust after someone at the Marietta Hotel on Northwest Parkway reported the phone stolen around 3 a.m. Police located the iPhone 4 by using its “Find My iPhone” app. Not only did the app lead them to a specific building within the Autumn View Apartments, but it also indicated that the stolen phone was in the northeast corner of the building...

Stolen iPhone leads police to drug, guns

[ztirffritz]

You call that a large cache of drugs and guns? That's a typical weekday around here. Just for the heck of it, I looked over the last week's news and found:

>4 shootings
>3 drug arrests (1 from a traffic stop and one from an idiot trying to smuggle drugs into the prison, 1 from pair of guys found with >1lb of meth)
1 story about juvenile human sex trafficking (at least that is better than the non-human sex trafficking we read so much about)
1 new registered sex offender relocating to our town
I had to stop there. It's pretty depressing really.

http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/newsweek

[ztirffritz]

Here's an even better one:
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/201...n-saturday

Three men suffered gunshot wounds early Saturday morning in a suspected gang-related shooting and a follow up investigation resulted in the seizure of weapons and more than 50 marijuana plants, police said...

...At the scene, police said they found bullet fragments in front of the house and blood trails between the street and the home. They also documented nearly 40 spent shell casings. Police reports said the number and pattern of the shell casings indicated two groups shooting at each other...