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An interesting follow-up on the SN story "CEO of Computer Management Services Inc. Murdered During Home Invasion":
After the fleeing suspects crashed and ran into the woods, police set up a perimeter with road checkpoints.
Soon, a Lyft driver approached a checkpoint and told police she was picking up a passenger nearby.
"This may be one of our suspects trying to leave the scene," Fayette County Sheriff Barry Babb thought of the person being picked up. So Babb and three officers got into his car, which happened to be identical to the Lyft driver's. They got the location of the suspect from the Lyft driver and simply drove to the suspect, posing as his ride.
"The subject walked all the way up, was about to open the door and get in our vehicle, when we exited and identified ourself" said Sheriff Babb. The suspect fled and got about 100 yards into the woods before being taken into custody. "That was something that was unique for us," Babb said, "a first time for us."
Link: http://www.myajc.com/news/police-use-lyft-trojan-horse-find-murder-suspect/vyciTzxxuGxsOhsWgDzcEI/
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(Score: 1) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:12PM (1 child)
True. It only makes it more likely (if the story becomes widely known) to make a suspect who's murdered someone that much more likely to murder the Lyft or Uber driver who comes to pick them up. (Since they could be a cop now, why take the chance? Why not just kill them and take the car? They're already guilty of murder anyway...)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:39PM
Yeah, but they'd just been a
plebecivilian murdering another civilian.Being a Cop Killer™... that means they've killed somebody important, so retribution will be increased against them tenfold.