{"id":312090,"date":"2017-04-19T06:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T06:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312090"},"modified":"2017-04-19T06:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T06:46:38","slug":"crowd-uses-app-to-arrest-iphone-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/crowd-uses-app-to-arrest-iphone-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd uses app to arrest ‘iPhone thief’"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 100 iPhones have been found in a single backpack after people at the Coachella music festival in California tracked their missing handsets, local police have said.<\/p>\n

Revellers had used the Find My iPhone app, which shows the location of a linked phone on laptops or other devices, Indio Police said.<\/p>\n

And a suspect had then been “followed” through the site and detained.<\/p>\n

Several phones had been returned immediately, the police added.<\/p>\n

‘Chatter’<\/h4>\n

And the rest had been handed to lost property at the festival site.<\/p>\n

Police had already dedicated extra resources to the festival after “chatter on social media” about missing iPhones, Sgt Dan Marshall told tech news site Gizmodo.<\/p>\n

But “in this case, the fans came through”.<\/p>\n

Festival-goers have been advised to:<\/p>\n