Stolen iPad's Tracking App Leads To Four Arrests

Someday, there may be an app for dumb criminals who steal tablets with tracking software.

Until then, they'll just keep getting arrested.

Such was the fate for one 23-year-old man whom police arrested Thursday night after they found him in East Atlanta with an iPad that was reported stolen just a few hours earlier.

The victim told police his iPad was stolen from a parked vehicle.

But using the tablet's Find My iPad app, he told police the device was at the Shell Station on Moreland and McPherson avenues.

"We sent one of our investigators to that area and while en route to the location the iPad passed them going in the opposite direction," Atlanta Police Department spokesman Curtis Davenport told East Atlanta Patch. "They managed to get the vehicle stopped and made several arrests. One related to the iPad and three others related to drugs."

Walter Johns, 23, was charged in the iPad theft, Davenport said.

Ed Gilgor, who is chairman of Neighborhood Planning Unit-W and who knows the victim, said the police reacted quickly.

"I e-mailed ," Gilgor said, referring to APD's .

"He called me and thanking me for my e-mail and said they were able to track it and they made an arrest."

He gave Meadows high marks for his leadership thus far.

"This is our new zone major," Gilgor said. "This guy is acting as responsibly as any zone major as I've seen. I'm impressed and I'm not usually impressed."