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Cell phone used as bait in burglary case

Published online on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009

By Paula Lloyd / The Fresno Bee
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Fresno County sheriff's deputies used a 22-year-old Visalia man's cell phone as bait to arrest him on suspicion of burglary.

Deputies were called to a burglary in progress on the 900 block of Fourth Street in Orange Cove about 3 p.m. Saturday. A man allegedly broke a window and climbed into the house, where motion sensors set off alarms. The suspect dropped his cell phone as he climbed out the window, said sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice.

Deputies found the cell phone and called people listed on the phone to contact him. When he called back, they arranged to meet him Saturday night on the pretext of returning the phone. Instead, the man was arrested.


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