A Chicago man is facing armed robbery charges after prosecutors said he helped a friend rob a FedEx driver while wearing a GPS-enabled electronic monitoring bracelet. Now, authorities are using location data from the ankle monitor to place him at the scene of the crime while it was unfolding.
Bernard Meeks, 21, was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device when he allegedly joined three other men in confronting a FedEx driver on the South Side on January 31. Prosecutors said GPS records from the bracelet tracked Meeks from his home to the robbery scene and showed him remaining there for several minutes during the holdup.
According to prosecutors, the trouble began at about 1 p.m., when a FedEx driver tried to deliver a package to 21-year-old Dylan Longstreet in the 10200 block of South Forest Avenue. The package required a signature, and when nobody answered the door, the driver continued on his route. Longstreet allegedly wanted the package badly enough to recruit Meeks and two unidentified accomplices to track down the FedEx truck and take the package at gunpoint…