‘Your phone told on you’: Troopers catch hit-and-run suspect in Central Florida — thanks to his iPhone

LEESBURG Fla WSVN You can run and you can hide but you can t hide from your phone A man was busted in Central Florida after leaving the scene of a crash and investigators commented it was all thanks to his iPhone Yashia Lucien declared she witnessed the crash Your phone informed on you it snitched on you she disclosed Jerome Williams is facing a charge of hit-and-run involving property damage after the Florida Highway Patrol revealed the -year-old got into a crash and ran off in the early hours of April He took off running down the street the cops caught him disclosed witness FHP troopers reported the crash happened along Sunnyside Drive in Leesburg According to an arrest description Williams smashed into a retaining wall on someone s property then took off As for what led troopers straight to the driver the record states his phone automatically called after detecting the crash The recording says The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone Mechanism expert Kevin Drinan chief information officer of Cutting Edge Technologies declared the feature comes standard in newer iPhones and it works within seconds It s turned on by default so by the time you literally get the alert it takes about seconds for it to turn on he mentioned and then from there if you do not respond to your watch or your phone what happens is within seconds it ll really dial crisis services for you In just moments troopers were dispatched to the occurrence and located Williams within minutes He was arrested and later disclosed after posting bond Drinan predicts the same device could help solve more hit-and-run cases in the future They have the capability to record these sessions and of class it s cellular so they ll be able to track it he declared So obviously exigency services is going to have the upper hand to respond the soonest