Just picked this post as it is more recent. I very much appreciated all your posts about what you learned from the scanner. However, I am mystified why it is not available to read. I see newer and older ones about missing people.
Also, although I have read this from the beginning, I don't recall any mention about Gianni's cell phone pings, have you read anything about them? As you said, LE is not releasing much information at all.
TIA
Sorry, not quite sure what you're asking about with the bolded? Is that in reference to the tweet w/ the picture I posted from one of the news stations? Or the 911 call now not public? Or...? (Sorry, sleep deprived and probably just being thick headed at the moment! :blushing
As for his cell phone, that IS one thing I've not heard
ANY talk of whatsoever - on the scanner, in the media, or really even comments on articles (though I've not read every one of them)
They are often
CRAZY quick to track cell phones here.
I'm not sure how they manage that in most cases since we often hear them needing warrants for that in other cases, but seems not to be the case in San Diego.
In fact, as I posted in some other thread on another case, several times they've gotten reports that are credible suicide threats (typically about jumpers) and pinged the phone and even manage to get there in time to essentially yank one back down off the bridge - literally seconds before it'd have been too late!
They do it with stolen phones (dispatch often mentions that she'll use her iPad to track an iDevice) they do it with at risk people who haven't been missing long, etc.
So I can't imagine they
haven't done so in this case, but I'm surprised it's apparently not led anywhere.
At this point, who knows if his phone would even ping, since we don't know if he's truly with his car (and if so if he has a charger in it) or even with the phone.
I don't imagine there's a chance in the world that all three did NOT have phones on them - especially since they possibly were trying to meet up at the mall - so besides just pinging Gianni's phone, I'd hope they had pinged phones Salvatore and Ilona had, even though they didn't need to locate them (to see if they had been in the mall area for awhile, to see if they pinged where Gianni's phone was prior)
Actually, I'd suspect they would try to get cell tower records to see
everyone who had a phone that pinged during the relevant window around the mall (assuming that's where the entire thing took place).
That I'd suspect would require a search warrant.
Based on just knowing how quickly (and frequently) LE is able to trace phones here (probably have heard about a dozen instances in a one or two hour window earlier tonight - and that was just in one area of San Diego) I'd assume that at least the records on Gianni's phone once they realized he was missing would be accessed.
But perhaps the "back pings" (prior to Ilona's 911 call) would need a warrant?
I've not heard anything about them sitting on a house or location that appeared to be related to this case, and often undercover, stakeouts, or plain clothes stuff is all still heard on the scanner here (some divisions and agencies more than others) - though it's not like I can hear all of it obviously - so I'm guessing that while they may have tried or continue to, it's not led to anything especially helpful at this point.
