Security News > 2020 > February > Taking a GPS tracker off your car isn’t ‘theft,’ court rules
2020-02-26 11:03
A suspected meth dealer is off the hook for at least one of the charges he's facing: that he "Stole" the GPS device that police stuck on his car to track his movements.
So police applied for warrants to search both Heuring's home and his father's barn, where they suspected that Heuring had put the GPS device.
Last year, a trial court denied Heuring's motion, but the supreme court showed last week that it was more sympathetic to his lawyers' rationale.
The initial search warrants were invalid because the affidavits did not supply probable cause that the GPS device was stolen.
The upshot: at least if you live in Indiana, the Hoosier state, your right to peel mysterious devices off your car is looking pretty healthy.