Darien police say they charged a man with stealing an iPhone after using a tracking application to trace it to his home.
Police gave this account of the incident, investigation and arrest:
At about 3 p.m. Sunday, June 16, police received a report of a stolen iPhone, valued at $400, from the Stop & Shop parking lot at 148 Heights Rd.
Sunday, June 16th, arrest of William Batista, DOB 8/1946, 137 Hollow Tree Ridge Road, apartment 213. Charge: larceny 6th degree.
The victim told police that she inadvertently left the phone in a shopping cart after leaving the supermarket. When she returned a short time afterward, the phone was missing, but had not been turned over to management at the store.
Police were able to use the tracking application to determine its location at the Avalon apartments at 137 Hollow Tree Ridge Rd.
Another feature of the phone also proved helpful: Officers activated the “play sound” application, and heard the phone ringing from an open window of Apartment 213. No one was home, but managers at the complex told police that William Batista, 66, lived there. Batista soon showed up, and police got the phone back.
Police issued Batista a misdemeanor summons on a charge of sixth-degree larceny. He is scheduled to appear June 26 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
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