Find My iPhone it was used by a policeman to locate his car that was stolen by a thief while the man was helping another person out of a house that caught fire. According to the policeman's statement, he entered the burning house to help a person escape with his life, but when he came out, his car had been stolen, along with the iPhone that was in it.
The police car was stolen by a 58-year-old woman, who was accused of both stealing the police car and setting the house on fire. According to the police, the woman would have set fire to the house in the bathroom, where she would have started the fire using a box of matches, but probably also another substance that would keep the flame lit in a room of this kind.
Find My iPhone has located a STOLEN Police Car
Following the spread of the fire, the woman's husband helped her and her mother out of the house, then went in and tried to put out the fire, at which point the policeman arrived and helped him out, only to discover that his car had been stolen by a woman. The woman drove the car for a short distance, then abandoned it and ran away, being found by a police dog.
"An Orange County deputy used the Find My iPhone feature to find his phone in a stolen cruiser after he helped a man out of a burning home and came outside to find his patrol car gone. Ruiz got on his radio and put out a description of the woman, records show. He knew he left his iPhone inside the car, so he used the Find My iPhone app to track it onto State Road 408, then to the 2800 block of E. South Street."
The car was located through Find My iPhone by the policeman, after he alerted his colleagues about its disappearance, but most likely it also had an integrated GPS to be located in cases of this kind. Despite this, the police officer used Find My iPhone, although it is not clear what other device he chose to locate, since the phone was in the car.
