iPhone Thief Caught at Busch Gardens

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There's an app for that, too — Tampa cops find stolen iPhones with GPS

...For a few seconds, the Jensens feared the two $300 phones were gone. All of the sudden, 13-year-old Caroline started jumping up and down.

She had an app for this.

"We can track him! We can track him by GPS!" Caroline told police.

The officers and the Jensens went to an employee break room, where Caroline used an officer's laptop to log into her iPhone's MobileMe account.

A group of about 20 people —the Jensen family, officers and park employees — huddled around the computer.

Within seconds, a Tampa map appeared with a blinking orange dot moving away from the park. "We're thinking to ourselves, there are our cell phones going down the road," Jennifer Jensen said.

The dot left the park, headed down McKinley Drive, headed south of Fowler Avenue and stopped less than 4 miles away from where it started.

"We have a suspect in view," police said via radio as they approached a man sitting outside apartment 201.

"The subject quickly put a cell phone into his left front pants pocket," an arrest report states.

Police said Richard Emerson, 25, later admitted to the theft. Officers found the other phone inside his apartment.

"The suspect has been apprehended. The stolen items have been recovered," police radioed in.

The break room went wild.

..But first, Caroline sent a few text messages to friends.

"So I was in Tampa, and I was on a roller coaster, and somebody stole my phone. Long story short, I used GPS, tracked the guy down and put him in jail."

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