CSI...Here I Come!

{this is the pic she posted the day it was stolen...

telling the world he couldn't take her smile away!}

This is definitely a story worth telling.

I should have been CSI...seriously.

If your child's cell phone is ever stolen while at school....

you might not want to turn it off.

That was the suggestion by the dean's office secretary when I called and reported that Kaia's cell phone had been stolen a week and a half ago. She said another parent left the service in place and they were lucky and were able to track a phone call made with the phone after a few weeks had passed by linking the number to the kid at the school who had stole it.

Since Kaia's was stolen in her 3rd period classroom there was a limited amount of kids that it could be.

We left her service on and then waited and watched.

We had not installed the tracking device but Verizon Wireless walked me through how to watch 'usage' online through the 'My Verizon' tab!

I checked it every few days. The person was turning the cell phone on, receiving all our texts and so far had only made one phone call that lasted one minute.

When we called that number they said that person calling was the wrong number.

I couldn't argue much with him because it was only a 1 minute long call.

So we left that kid alone.

Last night while sitting around after Easter dinner....I decided to check 'usage' again.

This time, the kid made two phone calls to the same number just the night before. The first called lasted 5 minutes and the second 3 minutes and they were just 5 minutes apart.

It listed the number and the town that call was made to.

At first we wanted to call the number but then decided against it because we didn't want to raise anymore red flags. So instead I did what any private investigator would do and I did a Reverse Telephone Number look-up that cost me $1.99.

We got the person's name and town in which they lived. Which was not Napa.

Kaia and her cousin quickly got on Facebook to see if they could find that person.

BINGO. The person came up living in the town listed and was born in 1976.

Putting two and two together we decided that it could be the kid's mother.

Kaia had a feeling which kid it might be, but didn't want to blame anyone without really knowing.

There was a boy sitting by all the backpacks that day in class not participating.

She had run over and put her phone in her backpack because it kept falling out of her back pocket during choir/dance class. She was sure he had watched her. But wanted to trust her classmates.

After confirming on Facebook the first information, Kaia finally said the boy's name out loud.

Her and her cousin got on Facebook and the boy's town was listed as the same out of town listing as the woman's. BINGO a second time. This was enough evidence for me to take to the school officer.

It didn't help the kid that he and the woman were friends on Facebook.

I went in this morning with all my info in hand.

I gave them the suspected kid's name and the name and telephone number that the kid had called.

I asked them if they could check his school records to see if there was a connection.

I'm not sure what was done at the school....but I know I must have given them great information!

The kid was called in by the school/officer

and Kaia now has her cell phone back!!

Except the JERK deleted EVERYTHING she said.

Her pictures, contacts, music....EVERYTHING she said was gone.

Only his crappy music and three of his contacts were on the phone!

I'm sure once she gets everything back familiar to her, she will be a happy happy girl!!
Thank you FACEBOOK info.