Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
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Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
The tech
giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to
find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the
innocent.
When
detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder
investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open
the case after other leads went cold.
The police
told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site
where a man was shot nine months earlier. They had made the discovery after
obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide information on all
devices it recorded near the killing, potentially capturing the whereabouts of
anyone in the area.
Investigators
also had other circumstantial evidence, including security video of someone
firing a gun from a white Honda Civic, the same model that Mr. Molina owned,
though they could not see the license plate or attacker.
But after
he spent nearly a week in jail, the case against Mr. Molina fell apart as
investigators learned new information and released him. Last month, the police
arrested another man: his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who had sometimes used Mr.
Molina’s car.
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