Stolen 360 Helps Cops Bag Prolific Bronx Burglar

Jeremiah Gilliam’s streak of 200-plus larcenies and burglaries came to an end when the criminal mastermind plugged in a jacked Xbox Live, leading the cops directly to his door.

Police got a search warrant for Gilliam’s home in the Bronx based off tracing info gathered by Microsoft and Gilliam’s ISP. Seems he snatched an Xbox 360 – see? It’s not so hard to specify the console in question – around Nov. 11, then hooked it up to play an online game (unspecified, but we’ll forgive ’em). Evidently the console was reported stolen, and when law enforcement went back to Microsoft to ask if that machine had connected since the burglary, lo and behold it had. I’m assuming the monthlong intermission was to make sure everything followed search warrant and subpoena procedure.

When police cuffed Gilliam, they found loot from “about 200 car larcenies and a couple of burglaries,” reports LoHud.com Consoles, mobile phones, GPS devices and other electronics were found in the trove. “We recovered so much, I just didn’t know where to start,” Pelham police Detective Rick Deer told LoHud.

Gilliam has the proverbial longer-than-one’s-arm rap sheet. He was out on parole at the time of his arrest. He’s looking at felony grand larceny charges.

Police Follow Xbox Trail to Suspect, Find Loot from 200 Thefts [LoHud.com via Hot Blooded Gaming]