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WANTED MAN UNKNOWINGLY WALKS INTO POLICE CUSTODY WHILE PLAYING POKÉMON GO
A wanted man in Milford got so engrossed while playing Pokémon Go, he unknowingly got himself arrested. The Milford police station is marked as a gym, and the app doesn’t mention street names to players, and the wanted man in question was probably on his way to claim the gym. He, however, did not realize that the gym was a police station. Police offers inside the building spotted him from the inside, and the man was subsequently arrested.
One police officer said: “I never thought someone with a warrant would be so driven by the game that they’d walk right up to the police station.”
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