An intoxicated 24-year-old woman who police say stole a purse and a cellphone from a bar in Jupiter was tracked down thanks to an iPhone app, according to an arrest report.
Tierney Mackey, who faces one charge of grand theft, was released under court ordered supervision and $3,000 bail Tuesday, according to jail records.
Tierney Mackey
On Sept. 26, a woman at Uncle Mick’s, a bar at Indiantown Road and Central Boulevard, told police another woman stole her red Nine West zippered clutch, an iPhone and other personal items. The woman said she was out on the dance floor when a woman with curly hair and freckles and acting drunk was standing near her purse, according to the report.
As police interviewed others at the bar and asked the manager to gather security footage, the woman’s friend used the Find my Friends app, used for people to share their locations with friends and family, to find her cellphone. The app said the phone was located about a mile north of the bar off Limestone Creek Road, according to the report.
A man at the residence said he knew a woman named “Tierney” who was in the area recently. Police found Mackey walking around the neighborhood soon after but she had no phone or purse on her and denied taking them, according to the report. Back at the bar the owner had video footage of Mackey taking the items while wearing the same clothing she was wearing moments when the officer saw her.
As the woman filled out police paper work, her friend noticed on the “Find My Friends” app that the phone was moving toward them. The man who answered the door earlier flagged down the group and said he found the iPhone in his residence after Mackey said she had taken it. He offered no other information or details on where Mackey had gone.
When officers went to Mackey’s home Sept. 28, her mother told police she no longer lived there. It’s unknown where she fled to or how police caught her.
Mackey served four months in prison on a robbery conviction, according to the Florida Department of Corrections website.
