Officer's Use of a Tracking Feature Leads to an Arrest in an iPhone Theft January 26, 2012, 11:48 pm If only Siri could have warned him. The police said an officer used a tracking feature on his iPhone to locate and arrest a man suspected of stealing a woman's iPhone at a handbag store on Thursday night. About 7 p.m., according to an account that the victim gave to the police, a man walked into a handbag store, near 57th Street and Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, where the woman was sitting. He brandished a black handgun and fled after stealing the woman's iPhone, the police said. After a fruitless canvass of the area, one officer, Robert Garland, tried another tack. Using the 24-year-old victim's iTunes account information and the iCloud feature on his own phone, Mr. Garland was able to track the victim's iPhone. Officers then followed the cyber-scent to the area near 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. As they searched the area, the suspect, who the police said had placed the phone in his boot, walked past the officers. The victim's phone began to beep. And, soon, the suspect was placed under arrest. The police identified him as George Bradshaw, 40, of New Lots Avenue in Brooklyn, and said he was charged with robbery.