Cellphone Location Tracking Used to Arrest Fugitive

A man wanted for shooting dead a retail store worker on Thursday was located on Saturday after police were able to track him using the cellphone location data sent to the network operator. Isaiah Mayweather, 25 has been arrested for the robbery at a store in Detroit where one store worker died and the other is still in a critical condition. A second suspect is still missing.

Mayweather was tracked to the Chicago area after he made a phone call to a Chicago detective he knew from working previous cases - who in turn notified the authorities. They were able to laise with the phone company to track his location to Chicago's Union Station. Federal marshals and Chicago detectives raced to the station and were able to pinpoint him to a train he was on.

"Through interviews of conductors and other personnel we were able to determine that he was on a train that was still in the station," said Shannon Robinson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Marshals Service. Marshals asked Metra employees to hold the train, boarded it and arrested Mayweather without incident, she added.

Posted to the site on 1st October 2007