A Texarkana, Texas, man has been arrested on a theft charge after allegedly stealing money from an E-Z Mart customer.
Police used GPS tracking data from the suspect's ankle monitor to confirm he had been at the store at the time of the theft, said Shawn Vaughn, spokesman for the Texarkana, Texas, Police Department.
Officers were dispatched to the E-Z Mart at 2316 College Drive on Monday night after a man reported that his money had been stolen. The victim told officers that he had just gotten back into his car on the store's parking lot. Before the victim could shut his door, a man approached him and grabbed about $175 from his hands. The suspect immediately fled and was last seen running west toward an apartment complex.
Upon receiving the case for investigation the next morning, Detective D.E. Evans recognized the description of the suspect as being Qwansie Stewart. He knew that Stewart was out on bond from a previous arrest and was required to wear an ankle monitor as a condition of his release. Using the historical GPS tracking data sent from the ankle monitor, Evans was able to confirm that Stewart had been at the E-Z Mart at the time of the theft before heading west from that location.
After obtaining a warrant for Stewart's arrest, Evans again used the ankle monitor's GPS data to locate Stewart at a residence in the 1800 block of West 24th Street Wednesday afternoon. He was arrested without incident and taken to the Bi-State jail.
His bond on that charge was set at $10,000. As a result of Stewart's arrest for this theft, his bond for the previous felony charge was revoked, Vaughn said.