Police in Selma, Texas, are crediting Apple Watch for helping them locate a kidnapped woman. As reported by Fox San Antonio, the kidnapped woman used her Apple Watch to call for help, and the police managed to use a cell phone ping to track her.
The report describes the situation:
When they arrived, the police spoke to a girl who told them that her mother had been kidnapped. She said her mother and Adalberto Longoria were out of an apartment arguing when the girl heard her mother scream. The girl told police she heard screams from the parking lot, but did not know where she was taken.
About 10 to 15 minutes later, the woman called the girl on her cell phone watch, saying that Longoria had kidnapped her and wanted to hurt her. While she was talking to her mother, the mobile watch was suddenly switched off.
The officers were then able to use an “emergency cell phone ping” to track the victim, the report explains. The Apple Watch was able to accurately show the victim’s location, so when the police arrived, they found her in a car in a parking lot, with Longoria running away on foot.
The report continues:
The victim told police that she and Longoria were fighting, and Longoria refused to hand over the vehicle. He told her to get her things out of the truck. When Longoria went to do that, she would have sat in the driver’s seat and left with her still in the back of the truck. The victim told police he was supposedly drunk at the time.
This is certainly one of the most interesting Apple Watch stories we’ve seen. The device’s health features are often credited for helping to save lives, but the always-on wearable clearly has other benefits as well. For example, the Apple Watch Emergency SOS feature has also been credited with helping to locate people missing and imprisoned in the past.
The full report can be found at Fox 29 San Antonio.
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