The latest robbery happened on Sunday morning at around 2am by men in a black BMW, but thankfully, police were able to apprehend them.
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Pokemon Go turns the premise of the popular Game Boy games into an augmented reality experience played on mobile phones and based on Global Positioning System coordinates.
The O’Fallon Missouri Police Department issues a statement stating that a group of armed robbers has been arrested after using Pokemon GO to lure in victims.
“Nobody was hurt, and no shots were fired in ours”, he said, referring to the robbery that took place in his jurisdiction. But police in O’Fallon, Missouri say that four men have used the game to find players at a specific location, and robbed them using a handgun.
Pokemon Go has been a viral sensation since its release on July 6, and caused shares of Nintendo, the maker of the app, to leap 10 percent as its popularity spread, according to Yahoo Finance.
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Many of you have heard of Pokemon Go, but for those that have not, it is a type of Geo Caching game where you find and capture Pokemon characters at various locations.
