Stolen iPhone Used to Track Down Thief

Police say a burglar on a crime spree was stopped in his tracks overnight when he stole the wrong thing.A stolen iPhone helped officers track the burglar's every move and arrest him.Jeri Fletcher says she came within moments of facing the thief. "When I saw the console up and the dome light was on, that's when I knew and I was like oh my gosh," she said.Fletcher had gone out to her car to find her missing phone. She considers herself very lucky today.

The burglar rummaged through her car and back utility room before trying to take off on her boyfriend's bike."The bike was parked right along here and he carefully maneuvered the bike out without waking anyone up," she described.

But the burglar threw the mountain bike on the ground and took off running when she stepped outside."I started yelling for him and he had to throw his clothes on real quick and run outside and he jumped on his bike to go and pursue the guy," Fletcher said.The man did make off with Jeri's cell phone, her boyfriend didn't see him and quickly returned after searching by bike. "I grabbed his phone and I said, well I'm going to call my phone, and he goes, don't call it, we can track it," she described.

Her boyfriend grabbed his phone and logged on to the app called Track my iPhone, it was able to track Jeri's phone down literally to the minute.Police arrived quickly, took the phone, and used the theft against the thief. "He looked at me and asked me, do you want me to take your phone with me," Josh said, "I said please, by all means and as quickly as I handed him my phone, they busted a u-turn and they were on their way after him."

In just minutes police caught up to him and identified the burglar as 34-year-old Vincent George Williams."They said he was violent, he was ready to fight and they said I was very lucky I did not come face to face with him downstairs," Fletcher told us.Instead police came face to face with him. Fletcher says her fortune did not end there, the officer came back with Josh's phone - and hers - in hand. "I was just like are you kidding me, this never happens, it never happens, I had already assumed, I had already taken a loss," she said.

Police not only recovered Jeri's stolen phone, but, they also found a bag full of makeup, a CD player and some loose change on Williams.Officers are not sure yet who owns the other stolen items.Back in December, Williams was detained by two customers at the Joe's Crab Shack along the Corpus Christi bayfront.

In that incident the victims saw a man ransacking their car, so they dragged him out and held him for police.He was found to be in possession of a radar detector, cell phone and hand soap that did not come from the victims' car.

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