Deputy uses Google Earth to track down crime

[Bill Mattocks]

Pretty clever, actually.

http://www.aolnews.com/tech/article/deputy-uses-google-earth-to-solve-crime/19420171

The whodunit involved an unmarked 1-ton, 18-foot boat that had been illegally dumped in an undeveloped subdivision 15 miles north of Pensacola, Fla. According to the Pensacola News Journal, Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Deputy Gregory Barnes got the idea to use Google Earth to scan archived images of properties in the area to see if he could locate where the boat had previously resided.

 

[Ken Morgan]

Cool. Nice work.
Off topic, it must be nice for some police forces to have the time to track down someone who dumped something illegally. I would think most would not have the manpower to follow it up.