The Tallahassee Police Department got creative this week after a phone went missing.
A Tallahassean lost a phone recently, but not access to the cloud. Pictures, or more accurate—selfies, started showing up from the lost phone depicting a young man in a Miami Heat beanie. So Police Department spokesman David Northway says they put the pictures up on Facebook.
“And we immediately received—almost immediately received—several people telling us they believed they knew who he was,” Northway says. “We were able to make contact with him by telephone and we have scheduled an interview with him to see what if any connection he has with the case.”
Northway is quick to point out the person in the photos could be an unwitting buyer of the stolen phone. Police posted the photo Wednesday afternoon, and less than 24 hours later they had tracked down the guy in the selfies.
