NY Daily News article:
iPhone thief in Queens has picture emailed to owner by iGotYa app, then forwarded to police
Pretty sure the author meant 111th St., but whatever. Hope it all works out for the woman! Hope the thief enjoys his face plastered all over. lol
Ladies, he's single!
iPhone thief in Queens has picture emailed to owner by iGotYa app, then forwarded to police
A brazen iPhone thief was captured - in pictures - in Queens after triggering an anti-crime photo app installed on the smartphone.
The tech-savvy owner, a 31-year-old woman whose name was not released, was walking on Liberty Ave. near 11th St. in Ozone Park in Queens about 8 p.m. Monday.
A man bumped into her, snatched her black iPhone from her pocket and ran away, cops said.
But when he later tried unsuccessfully to unlock the phone, it automatically took a picture of him and emailed it to her, thanks to an application called iGotYa.
She recognized the unsmiling man in the photo as the creep who ripped off her phone and passed the portrait on to police, officials said.
iGotYa is a third-party app made by Cydia and not available in the official Apple app store.
Pretty sure the author meant 111th St., but whatever. Hope it all works out for the woman! Hope the thief enjoys his face plastered all over. lol
Ladies, he's single!