Police in Missouri say teens used Pokemon Go to rob victims
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Pokemon Go is displayed on a cell phone in Los Angeles on Friday. Just days after being made available in the U.S., the mobile game Pokemon Go has jumped to become the top-grossing app in the App Store.
O’FALLON, Mo. » Police in Missouri say four teens robbed victims after luring them to a specific location using the new Pokemon Go smartphone game.
Police said today that four teens used the game to draw victims to a spot in O’Fallon, just outside of St. Louis, and then robbed them.
The recently released game sends players to locations to collect various creatures. Police say the robbers used the game to lure victims by putting a “beacon” at a location to draw in players.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports police arrested the four teens after responding to a call for a robbery near a gas station today. The suspects are between the ages of 16 and 18.
Police said the suspects may have been involved in similar robberies around St. Louis.
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There is endless fraud out there. Please, everyone, be careful I watched “America’s Most Wanted” last night and saw that some Punahou graduate had defrauded honest homeowners out here for millions of dollars and then fled the islands. Weak courts and prosecutors aided him by not aggressively prosecuting him and his wife. Sad.