It seems that a 22-year old Bronx resident, by the name of Jeremiah Gilliam, thought it would be a good idea to to play a stolen Xbox 360 online. Sure, everything might have seemed fine at first but the boy whose console it was noticed the Gamertag come online and decided to call his parents. Making note that the console was missing, the parents called the cops who were able to track the IP address through Microsoft to the burglars home.

Not only did they find the stolen Xbox 360 along with a plethora of other gadgetry but they charged Mr. Gilliam with grand larceny. Remember kids, crime doesn’t pay.

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This is a definite case for one of those “dumbest criminal” shows. Ryan Ketsenburg, a college student at Missouri State University returned to his dorm room to discover that while he was gone he’d left the door unlocked and someone had swiped his Xbox 360. A smart criminal would have quickly absconded with the console and gotten as far away as possible, selling it on eBay or hawking it. Unfortunately for this small time crook they didn’t get far enough away.

Ketsenburg discovered that when he turned his Xbox 360 controller on it was still able to connect to the console which of course meant it was somewhere nearby. He went up and down the stairs of his dorm, finally concluding that his console was in a room on the fifth floor. Following the controller’s signal he discovered what room the console was in and got the fifth floor RA to open the door for him. He proved the console belonged to him simply by turning on the Xbox with his controller.

Unfortunately for Mr. Ketsenburg the hard drive had been formatted, likely in an attempt to erase the evidence of who owned it before so let’s hope he hadn’t gotten too far into Last Remnant before it was stolen.