Saturday, 21 April 2018

Police raid funeral to get fingerprints from a corpse to unlock his phone

In this day and age, perhaps this story isn't terribly surprising. Let's start at the beginning. On March 23rd, police in Largo, Florida shot and killed 30-year old Linus F. Phillip at a Wawa gas station (Google it). The cops were about to search Phillip when he started to flee in his car. Fast forward to a few days later when a couple of detectives showed up at the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home in Clearwater with the deceased man's phone. They were taken to Phillip's body and attempted to unlock his handset by putting his lifeless finger on the fingerprint sensor.

It just so happened that Phillip's ...

No comments:

Post a Comment