iPhone tracking app used to catch crooks in Texas

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Toronto is battered and bruised and man attacked her and robbed her Wednesday night outside region -- mall in west Fort Worth.

Lord isn't your friend it just come out at Dillard's around 830 it was dark.

-- -- -- -- -- -- You know I had so -- -- say she held onto our purse that guy shelter to the ground.

-- all hope he shouldn't.

Mary Hart I -- then.

Fly on the ground -- Nike and -- my bike.

Light on the ground.

The robber ran to a nearby car and got away.

Lord -- figured she'd never seen her purse again she called her husband Jesse and police.

Before it left the house -- says he opened his find my iPhone app and started tracking -- is found.

Which was inside her purse inside the suspect's car.

Well I saw it moving when I first left here it's -- over -- moving down -- Boulevard out of -- all points now.

When Jesse met up with -- is in the police he gave his I've -- to the responding officer.

I think shortly after a game pollinate it indicated.

The phone was on the move again.

-- -- -- The tracking at pinned down the suspect's car parked -- this Tom -- parking lot on Bryant -- When they started driving away.

Officers -- Kelsey pots the suspected robber.

And candy -- Foster the suspected getaway driver -- with the main thing police reunited lord is with her purse.

And herself fun.

-- -- -- -- got there I'm jail without that technology we probably never would have found anything.

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