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Police Use Lyft As 'Trojan Horse' To Capture Suspect In Murder of Tech CEO (myajc.com)
McGruber writes: On Friday, June 23, 2017, three men broke into the home of Albert Eugene DeMagnus, the CEO of Computer Management Services. The men stabbed DeMangus, who was pronounced dead after he had been taken to a hospital. Police officers chased two of the suspects as they fled in DeMangus' gray Lexus. The Lexus crashed and the two men ran away into the woods. Police then set up a perimeter with road checkpoints. Soon, a Lyft driver approached a checkpoint and told police she was picking up a passenger nearby. "This may be one of our suspects trying to leave the scene," Fayette County, Georgia Sheriff Barry Babb thought of the person being picked up. So Babb and three officers got into his car, which happened to be identical to the Lyft driver's. They got the location of the suspect from the Lyft driver and simply drove to the suspect, posing as his ride. "The subject walked all the way up, was about to open the door and get in our vehicle, when we exited and identified ourself," said Sheriff Babb. The suspect fled and got about 100 yards into the woods before being taken into custody. "That was something that was unique for us," Babb said, "a first time for us."
"Hey we need to get out of here without being seen"
"I know, let's summon a car with a giant pink mustache!".
Maybe they were just upset at Ubers recent scandals. It's nice that todays murderers are so socially aware.
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Clearly the car wasn't used as a trojan horse, but as a mouse trap.
Running 100 yards is quite an achievement, good work boys.
This can't be true.
Where was the backdoor to encryption installed and used ?
We all know criminals can't possibly be caught without being able to browse through someones phone.
There were how many houses in the area ?, how many of their computers were hacked into, how many web cams were compromised ?
See, the true facts are missing, I call this BS.
Maybe 20-30 years ago cops could have done this, but they did not have access to modern technology or techniques...sloppy...just sloppy
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Might I take the opportunity to point out that you can be reeeeeally smart and still not smart enough to own a gun "just in case." You know, just in case someone breaks in and stabs you.