To catch a cellphone thief

So some high school student in Ohio had her phone stolen, but rather than just give up, she decided to call the phone and see who answered, and in the process managed to help bust up a ring of thieves who had been breaking into cars all over that part of the state:

Dempsey's camera phone, programmed to play Latin dance music when it rang, was stolen sometime after midnight Feb.
22 from her 1989 Buick, which was unlocked and parked in her family driveway.

Convinced the phone was too cool for someone to throw away, Dempsey decided to dial the number.

A female voice answered.

"Hey, girl," Dempsey said.

The voice on the other end tried to guess who was calling.

"Crystal? Tiffany? Jenn," the voice asked.

"Uh, it's Tiffany," Dempsey said.

"Hey, girl," the voice said.

"I haven't seen you in, like, forever."

"I can come right over," Dempsey said. "Tell me where you are."

The voice gave the address to Dempsey, who said goodbye and then called police.

Police went to a house in rural Columbia Township and arrested two men suspected in a theft ring that broke into 100
vehicles in rural areas of Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain and Medina counties, said Lorain County sheriff's detective Randy
Koubeck.

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