Landon Crabtree, 8-Year-Old, Uses iPad App To Catch Tennessee Burglar

Landon Crabtree, 8, used an app to locate his stolen iPad and the burglar who allegedly took it.

A burglar allegedly responsible for multiple break-ins was outsmarted last week by an 8-year-old boy.

Third-grader Landon Crabtree used a tracking device application he'd downloaded to find an iPad and other possessions recently stolen from his family's home in Manchester, Tenn.

He activated the app from a computer in his house and it revealed that the pilfered iPad was at a nearby motel, the Tennessean reported.

Crabtree told his dad, who called the police. Within the hour Coffee County Sheriff's deputies called to say they'd arrested a suspect, according to the Associated Press.

"You don't mess with our family," said Landon, who wants to be an FBI agent when he grows up, according to WTVF.

Police arrested John Docherty, who they said had used the Ambassador Inn Motel to stash a trove of items stolen during a string of recent burglaries in central Tennessee.

The charges against Docherty widened when a detective in nearby Franklin County saw him on television and recognized that he matched the sketch of a wanted thief there.

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Comments

[elgeezr]

11:28 PM on 04/01/2012

Smart kid. Good for him.

[iLdoRight]

08:23 PM on 04/01/2012

Applause, applause !

[Shep11]

04:10 AM on 03/30/2012

How do you like dem apples!

[Juggalo17]

01:58 PM on 03/29/2012

Thats whassup lil dude

[dvmweb1984]

07:48 PM on 03/28/2012

Good for him!

[J0E1]

02:10 PM on 03/28/2012

Oh wow!  He used an app on the ipad?  Someone send this kid directly to his IVY league school of choice!  We have ourselves a tech prodigy!

[rkeeeballs]

10:26 AM on 03/28/2012

Smart kid ! I have heard of a few stories very similar to this !...screw them thieves !

[Phillip Ramirez]

09:00 AM on 03/28/2012

Possibly the greatest endorsement for ALL owners of iOS devices to download and activate "Find My iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch".

SO DON'T WASTE A MINUTE!!! DO IT TODAY!!!

[zigyboo]

09:39 AM on 03/28/2012

You don't need the app.
Its already installed as long as you have iOS 5 or better and iCloud.

[Therealkarmabug]

08:19 AM on 03/28/2012

All iPads have a tracker on it, FYI, you don't need an app :) so if you ever do lose it or it is stolen apple can track it for you

[Rich Wretch]

06:36 AM on 03/28/2012

Was this kid wearing a hoodie when he activated this iPad app? Somehow, I doubt it. Sigh....

[jennyopines]

06:05 AM on 03/28/2012

Smart children always make my day! :-)

[deafsnoopy08]

06:04 AM on 03/28/2012

Great job, Boy!

[4Ueducatedidiots]

05:39 AM on 03/28/2012

We need more kids like this these days.

[Bob Merlin]

05:32 AM on 03/28/2012

looks like the future of the FBI is in good hands!

[Rich Wretch]

06:38 AM on 03/28/2012

Unless he turns out to be a Hooverite Cross Dresser. Then we are ALL in trouble!

[thatsthattt]

05:28 AM on 03/28/2012

Great Kid! Smart Kid!