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September 14, 2012 11:25 pm GMT

Find My iPhone Leads To Arrest Of Suspects In Atlanta Armed Robbery Case

overview_findmyiphone_heroApple's iPhone has had its crime-fightingcapabilitiesdetailed before, but a new story today out of Atlanta (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) has its Find My iPhone feature helping to catch two suspects in an armed robbery case. After five women were held up at gunpoint near the Biltmore Hotel last night in the Georgia state capital, police tracked one of their stolen iPhones to an apartment and nabbed the suspects.A tipster tells us that police used Find My iPhone to track the device, the service that Apple makes available to iCloud users who also own iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and iPad software. Find My iPhone has helped in arrests a number of times in the past, including in an armed robbery case reported by the L.A. Times last November.

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