A man was arrested in the United States following trying to steal a car, failing and fleeing the crime scene still in possession of the vehicle keys – which, to his bad luck, were on a keychain together with a AirTag.
This episode of “blundering thief” happened last Friday (17/3), in Chicago, in the US state of Illinois. According to information from the CWBChicago, Andrew Moran25 years old, approached a woman in the parking lot of a mall with his hand in one of his pockets and said that he needed to take his vehicle, otherwise someone would kill him.
The thief, however, did not count that the victim’s Audi A3 was a vehicle with a manual transmission and ended up having difficulty getting it out of its place (yes…). After a few failed attempts, Moran decided to leave the vehicle behind and flee to a nearby train station.
The police, who were called by the victim from a store close to the crime scene, used AirTag and the app Look for (Find My) to track the wagon picked up by the criminal and intercept it at another station. Upon arriving there, the police found only the vehicle keys lying in the wagon; however, a witness told officers that Morgan had dropped them when he noticed the patrol cars approaching.
Upon being found, Moran was arrested and accused of attempted robbery, and cameras in the mall’s parking lot caught all the action. Still according to the information, he spat on one of the officers and tried to kick another officer.
According to his public defender, Morgan has three children and has just undergone head surgery, which may be related to a mental disorder.
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