Mom’s phone call leads Florida police to burglary suspect

Not now, mom.

A phone call from mom came at a lucky time for Florida police investigating a burglary on Thursday, and at a very unlucky time for the woman's son, who's now a suspect in the home invasion. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported investigators were on the scene at a home in Lake Worth, where a cell phone, a shotgun and a stash of jewelry had been stolen, when they heard a phone ring. Police looked over at the phone on the kitchen counter and saw the word "Mom" was up on the screen.

The phone, it seems, was left behind by the suspect.

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Mom was even more helpful when police answered the phone and asked her whose phone she was calling. She said it was her son, Derek Codd's phone, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Mr. Codd, 19, will have plenty of time to think about why he should call his mother more often — instead of waiting for her to ring — if he's convicted on charges of burglary and grand theft.

Codd's girlfriend, 19-year-old Kristen Rynearson, was also charged in connection with the burglary, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

In a similar case this summer, a car burglary victim in Seattle found the suspect's phone in her vehicle — and then called his mom. Rather than involve the police, the woman told the Seattle Times she visited the 19-year-old's family and brought him door-to-door in her neighbourhood to apologize for breaking into several cars.