GPS is Everywhere
- Minutes after an armed bank heist in Calumet City last week, the three suspects met up at the home of one of their parents in neighboring Dolton. They barely were out of their vehicles when they heard sirens -- getting louder and louder.
How had the cops tracked them down so quickly? The masks, getaway vehicles and meet-up location had all been mapped out earlier, but a relatively new feature in bank security -- credit-card-size GPS devices hidden in stolen cash -- led police almost instantly to the suspects, according to an FBI affidavit.
Expect this to be used with increasing regularity in all sorts of investigations. All sorts of them. You have been warned.
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posted by SCC at 1:01 AM
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"Expect this to be used with increasing regularity in all sorts of investigations. All sorts of them. You have been warned."
I'll start worrying when they can hide them in a condom.
There is a training video on the matter. It's suppose to be confidential
"a relatively new feature in bank security -- credit-card-size GPS devices hidden in stolen cash"
Nice of the media to tell all the criminals what to look for in the money.
UH wasn't this supposed to be "secret" .
Glad this is now public knowledge
Just a high tech version of tracking some felonious moron's shoeprints in the new driven snow.
Every winter, we'd get a few of those idiots.
I'll start worrying when they can hide them in a condom.
They already can......"ribbed for her pleasure?" That's the antennae wire for transmission.
Hey...maybe they could stash a few of those into our tax dollars..or maybe some of the money that "flows around" town. That would be an enlighting GPS plot wouldn't it?
I remember watching the training video. I thought it was a "no-no" to discuss the GPS technology used to thwart bank robberies? I realize this was realized by the FBI, but why show your hand in fighting crime when it isn't necessary?
Put GPS in McPier paychecks!
Anonymous said...
I'll start worrying when they can hide them in a condom.
1/07/2010 01:11:00 AM
Imagine that dispatch message:
"Target is a few inches north of last location...couple inches south...couple inches north.."
GPS money? Daley's house must be emitting radiation like a fucking radio transmitter.
awesome it's about time
THOSE ROBBERS JUST AUTOMATICALLY PASSED THE NEWLY PLANNED CPD ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
I think it is funny how the training video and written material about the "package" was "confidential - for law enforcement personnel only." Who spilled the beans?
I just found out. Jesus, those library books were only three days late.
DAMN,
I was just about to hit the Bridgeport Money Train with my partners Shane, Lem, and Ronnie.
Oh well. Back to policing the hard mean streets of LA.
How about in daleys car? burkes? the other 49 thieves? How about cameras in daleys and the 50 thieves offices that we pay for??
Was that GPS used in the money-bag ROBBERY that was taken from the Buffalo-Grove Back in Sept-07 when every police agency chased these guy's all the way into the city and crashing their gettaway-personal car into a marked Chicago-Police Squad-Car?!
I heard that the Officer who was hit had suffered some major injuries when he got ejected through the passenger window.
The question here is how did they allow these asswipes to drive their car all the way into the city from Buffalo-Grove??
Even the FBI along with several outside agencies chased them, the only reason they were caught was the buck stopped when they ran into CPD from the 012-Dist.!!
The Officer had three surgeries with one more set before he can fully recover.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
not to smart it go public wth this, not to smart at all.
that's f'ing amazing, though.
wrap the cash in foil
Duh, it's "THE PACKAGE", when you say it though, you need to speak like the World's Most Interesting Man. "Stay Thirsty My Package"!
"There is a training video on the matter. It's suppose to be confidential"
The video is on the streaming web sight called Electronic Satellite Pursuit.
Its going to come out in court eventually as evidence in a case, if it has not already.
The crooks know there are marked bills, recorded serial numbers, dye markers, and various other surprises, and that has not stopped them, nor does it seem to have made them invalid as crime fighting tools.
These kind of things have been around quite a while now. Some police departments have been using them to trail suspect vehicles. There was even a federal court case about whether it was constitutional to attach one to a suspect's car w/o a warrant. IIRC, the court decided that was OK.
I saw a streaming roll-call for this about a month ago. It even has a "cool" code name for when it is mentioned over OEMC radio.
Oh, please; everyone in the world knows there are dye packs available for tellers to drop into the bag of money and that they are disguised as 'real' bundles of money. There's no big leap of intellect to figure out GPS would be next.
Plus, if the fear of a GPS device included in the stolen money deters a few bank robberies, how is this a bad thing?
I know some people post here and act as if the public and the CRIMINAL public don't have access to the internet to learn all our 'secrets', but, guys, they do. GPS in bait money is not really news.
GPS tracking is easily defeated by several measures, which I won't detail here.
Same thing with FLIR, if you know what you're doing.
Nice of the media to tell all the criminals what to look for in the money.
1/07/2010 01:36:00 AM
Media morons tell where to get info on building bombs so this suprises you?
Even the FBI along with several outside agencies chased them, the only reason they were caught was the buck stopped when they ran into CPD from the 012-Dist.!!
The Officer had three surgeries with one more set before he can fully recover.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
1/07/2010 01:02:00 PM
Say what you want, but if you want to end and incident call CPD not those pussy feds. I remember hearing the story of a guy who years ago, ended a chase by crashing into some POS to end a chase. (Turned out to be true.) NO ONE HURT (offender slightly and not from crash.) Not real high speed, not probably according to general order, could probably be second guessed, (you had to be there) but pretty ballsy. Then again it was a different time. I hear the job used to be fun.
I found one while conducting a "014th District Tactical Anal Cavity Search" at Beach and Spaulding last night.....they're everywhere.
Even the FBI along with several outside agencies chased them, the only reason they were caught was the buck stopped when they ran into CPD from the 012-Dist.!!
The Officer had three surgeries with one more set before he can fully recover.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
1/07/2010 01:02:00 PM
Monroe officers are my heroes. Let us give that injured cop a fund raiser. I'll invite 1,000 students from U of I.
1/07/2010 01:11:00 AM
has SCC censorship loosened up for 2010? this website has become genuinely funny lately when it helps to be so...more like old SCC days when almost every other comment was off color yet...grossly poignant.:)(if grossly is a word which it probably is not, sorry)
observing this with best intentions, SCC- understand your need to "crop" every now and then! ;)
I heard that if you don't take the money from the bank they can't track you with the GPS.
I'll start worrying when they can hide them in a condom.
They already can......"ribbed for her pleasure?" That's the antennae wire for transmission.
1/07/2010 08:20:00 AM
He hasnt anything to worry about....Motorola doesnt make antennae THAT SMALL.
Duh, it's "THE PACKAGE", when you say it though, you need to speak like the World's Most Interesting Man. "Stay Thirsty My Package"!
1/07/2010 03:56:00 PM
No you need to say it like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas......
I got your PACKAGE......RIGHT HERE.
"Put GPS in McPier paychecks!"
An EXCELLENT suggestion? Are you listening, Fitz?
What used to be the "red-light" flashing under the dash back in the day, is it true that all vehicle's have what is known today as a black box?
I'm told that they can determine your rate of speed, braking, emergency equipment used if any, and seatbelts?
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