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DRUG DEALER WHO ROBBED FIFE CABBIE CAUGHT BY USING ‘FIND MY’ APP ON STOLEN iPHONE
A drug dealer who robbed a cabbie of his takings and phone was tracked down with the help of the device’s “Find My” function. The Courier reports that Darren Davies swiped the iPhone while making off from the man’s taxi in Glenrothes. Fiscal depute Claire Bremner told Kirk- caldy Sheriff Court that Davies had been picked up from the town’s train station at around 10.20pm. She said: “He entered the taxi and sat in the front passenger seat and asked to be driven to Glenrothes. The cabbie noticed he appeared to be intoxicated, or under the influence of drugs. “The accused placed his hand into the centre console of the vehicle and picked up a black iPhone which the complainer took back and placed it in
the pocket of the driver’s door. “The accused then tried to pick up some money bags so the cabbie closed the lid of the compartment, trapping the accused’s fingers who told the complainer he had assaulted him.” The taxi driver stopped the car because Davies was becoming angry. As he attempted to call police, Davies swiped the money before snatching the iPhone out of the driver’s hand and running off. The taxi driver was able to call police on a second mobile phone who carried out a search for the accused. “Police then used the Find My app to search for the iPhone and it showed as being in the Canmore Path area.” Their attention was drawn to Davies’ house, where the taxi driver’s money
bags, iPhone and more than £800 of Etizolam tablets or street Valium – were found. At the police station Davies verbally abused officers, stripped off his shirt and tried to overturn the interview room furinture, despite them being bolted to the floor. He also assaulted a detective by trying to gouge his eye. Davies admitted stealing the mobile phone and cash in Glenrothes, on Octo- ber 12 last year. He further admitted being concerned in the supply of Etizo- lam and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner en route to the police station and to assaulting a police offi- cer while being interviewed at Kirkcaldy Police Station on October 13. Sheriff John Morris jailed him for two and a half years.
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