Google Maps Streetview used in kidnapping case

Dustin Sier (MiracleManS)

January 13, 2009 9:54 AM ET in News, , ,

google_gApparently, Google Maps Streetview isn’t just for figuring out what the dinner looks like that is located on the corner of 4th and E streets.

Streetview was recently used by authorities in tandem with cellphone GPS technology. Two officers used the technological dynamic duo to pinpoint probable locations of a young girl abducted by her grandmother.

Nice to see technology used for good, not evil.

3 Comments:

  1. DrLiam
    13 Jan '09, 4:52 pm

    w00t! Suck on that grandma! ... wait what? A grandma kidnapped her granddaughter? That's kind of a twisted case.

  2. CNY2CLT
    14 Jan '09, 3:03 am

    It is so often that Law Enforcement is reactionary. It is nice to see those in BLUE embracing technology and being proactive. Bad Grandma, Bad.

  3. CB
    14 Jan '09, 4:51 am
    Quoting DrLiam

    w00t! Suck on that grandma! ... wait what? A grandma kidnapped her granddaughter? That's kind of a twisted case.

    If you believe the FBI agents on Without a Trace, kidnappings are usually perpetrated by family members (most often a parent). Ironically, as much as they say that in the show, it almost never happens for their cases.

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