A young guy named Jeremy Gillian stole another young man’s XBox 360 in a robbery and then turned it on with the network and Gamertag intact. The results were expected: the victim was able to grab the IP, police tracked it to Gillian’s grandmother’s house, and the XBox and a a bunch of other stolen stuff were found.

Now this story comes to us from Crunch who received word from the NY Post, not one of the most tech savvy newspapers New York. With the thought of the NYC Detectives “working with Microsoft” to track a stolen XBox is a bit hard to accept firsthand, but apparently the story happened so the credit goes to Pelham Detective John Hynes and Microsoft for working together on this. At least a detective enjoyed learning about IP tracking.