Police use cell phone tracking technology to place suspect in area during slaying

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Montgomery County police used cell phone technology to catch a suspect accused of shooting and killing a man in the woods behind a posh Germantown neighborhood, police said in court documents.

In recent years law enforcement agencies have increasingly relied on the tracking of cell phones to not only put criminals and terrorists in jail, but to also rescue kidnap victims, police said.

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