A Miami man, Jay Bruns, became his own detective after his truck was burglarized outside his Venetian Islands condominium, using a GPS tracker attached to his wallet to track down the suspected thief and recover his stolen goods, including work tools and credit cards, WSVN reported.
The incident began Monday when Bruns received a call about a suspicious man near his property which escalated to his truck being broken into and the pilfering of his belongings, Bruns acted on a hunch when he noticed some of his tools scattered on the ground where the stranger had been, the discovery leading him to call the police and later, after losing sight of the suspect and filing a police report, his own proactive tracking efforts would pay off when his GPS started to ping the location of his items in Overtown, according to a BNN Breaking News article.
Bruns' late-night journey to Overtown resulted in the cornering of the suspect, 41-year-old Moisses Gomez, when he alerted a nearby officer after actually tracking down his personal items; and in a twist straight out of a high-tech crime drama, the suspect was found with the stolen goods when the GPS tracker's noise began to emit from his pocket, as Bruns told police "I'm going to push this button on my tracker," pinpointing the source directly to Gomez's possession.
Gomez, who had just completed a sentence for strong-arm robbery and was released in November, now faces charges for burglary and unlawful possession of stolen credit cards he is currently at the Miami-Dade County jail, while the case brings to light the growing role of personal tech gadgets in crime prevention efforts, individuals today wielding the power of technology to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, as underscored by the events that led to Gomez's arrest.
