PHILLIPS: Crime fighting at your fingertips. There's an app for that, as one purse snatching victim recently found out. Getting her stolen handbag back while giving the suspect a complementary ride to jail. From CNN affiliate WSB, George Howell has the story.</s>GEORGE HOWELL, CORRESPONDENT, WSB (voice-over): Look closely at this surveillance video and you see it happen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think I said out loud, "Was that my door that just slammed?" And I looked over, and my purse was gone.</s>HOWELL (voice-over): This woman, who asked that we not use her name, says she was pumping gas and cleaning out her car when someone snatched her purse and took off. But all hope was not lost.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It dawned on me, I had a tracking system on my telephone, and my telephone was in my purse.</s>HOWELL (voice-over): Oh, how the tables turned. The victim called 911 and also called a friend to check her Mobile Me account, an iPhone app with GPS tracking built in.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With my friend on the telephone, they followed the phone up 85, and with this app, he was able to tell them specifically which parking spot of a parking lot he was in.</s>HOWELL (voice-over): Within 15 minutes, police say they caught Freddrick Glover in Gwinnett County and recovered the stolen purse.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Apparently, this was a gentleman who had broken his parole. It was a car that didn't belong to him. He went to jail for much bigger things than stealing my purse.</s>PHILLIPS: That was George Howell reporting. And he adds that the woman who got nearly everything in the purse, well, she got it back, rather, except for one credit card that she promptly canceled. Kentucky's US Senate race has been one of the ugliest in the country. Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul spoke to CNN about what's next and what he plans to do if he's pushed through to Capitol Hill.
Woman Uses iPhone App to Track Purse Snatcher