I'm not really sure how often this happens, but it comes to my attention from time to time when I am reading police reports early in the morning. I spotted this one today. The victim was out and about downtown celebrating the New Year, and lost track her cell phone. Fortunately, she must have had a good strong charge on her battery, because when she got up the next morning, she tracked it with Find My iPhone to the area of 12th & K Street. She had no recollection of being in that vicinity, and she filed an online report of its loss on the police department's web site. I wish she had just called, but the good news is that the duty commander, Capt. Bob Farber spotted the report in his queue:
On 1-2-15, I reviewed the Incident Report on this case and called the contact number for the victim. While on the phone with the victim's father I had the father take a screen shot showing the location where his daughter's missing iPhone was and then asked him to text me the screen shot so that I could see where exactly the app was showing their daughters lost or stolen iPhone was. The screen shot was texted to the LPD Duty Command Cell phone.
The screen shot showed the phone was in the middle of the parking lot located at 1234 K St. While talking on the phone Sgt Kocian went to the parking lot and found the victim's missing iPhone. The following items belonging to the victim were recovered.
White Apple iPhone
Blue Targus iPhone case
NE OLN
UNL STUDENT ID CARD
WELLS FARGO DEBIT CARD
VISA
UNL STUDENT HOUSING ID CARD
9 comments:
Apparently, the find your phone app is actually a "get the police to find your phone" app.
When I had a Virgin Mobile phone that had a website that you could go to that showed a HISTORY of all calls coming in to or going out.
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Welcome back, Tom We missed you!
Why don't people have to try to find these things on their own rather than having the police chase them around? There are better things for our law enforcement to be doing with their time than finding college student's lost property. This is a waste of my tax dollars.
Most people I know who lose their cell phone simply call their own number from another phone and figure out which room or pocket they left it in.
12:45 and 6:59,
I hear you, but the victim said she had no idea how her phone would have ended up in the area of 12th & K Streets, thought it might be in the possession of a suspect, and was afraid of a possible confrontation.
We handled 599 reports of lost or stolen items last year--cases in which the victim wasn't sure the property was stolen, and could have simply been misplaced. I suspect most were just lost, because the clear-cut cases are classified as larceny/theft.
Ok - I understand the "why make the police handle a non-police issue" mentality - but, assuming there was a slow period in the day - imagine the positive PR etc that was generated by this officer's involvement. Thanks god we don't have the us against them attitude that is cropping up in some communities since Fergusen etc - but let's not forget that incidents like this go a long way to ensuring that never happens in Lincoln
Any guess as to the probability that this case is yet another example of how excessive drinking consumes police resources?
11:40,
Things that make you go, "Hmmmm." Out on New Year's Eve at downtown bars, cell phone turns up in lot blocks away, doesn't recall being there.
Could be bad memory. Could be impaired judgment. Could have actually been stolen and dumped. Don't know, don't need to know.
Glad we got her ID and credit cards back, something that could prevent other crimes.
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