Spanish police use tracking device to catch trolley thief

A serial shopping trolley thief in Spain has been caught out by a GPS device.

According to Madrid Police, the 37-year-old man was stopped in his tracks when officials found out his whereabouts by putting a tracking device on a cart which he then stole.

He is thought to have stolen around €290,000 worth of trolleys and he then sold them on to a scrap metal dealer.

The city's police explained in a statement: "A GPS positioned on one of the trolleys chosen at random alerted us to its departure from the premises of the establishment and led officers to the suspect."