Police Use of GPS Devices Raises Fourth Amendment Issues
For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a ski mask holding up one convenience store after another. That was until the gunman made off with a stack of bills that investigators had secretly embedded with a GPS tracking device.
October 02, 2015 at 04:24 PM
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For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie and black ski mask holding up one gas station or convenience store after another.
That was until the gunman made off with a stack of bills that investigators had secretly embedded with a GPS tracking device.
Within days, a suspect accused of pulling off nearly a dozen heists, including one in which a clerk was killed, was behind bars, and officers were crediting technology that has become commonplace over the past five years or so.
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