Two uniformed men from the Los Angeles Police – California, in the United States, They were laid off for being on their smartphones playing Pokémon Go and for that reason they stopped attend a robbery in the area that they had assigned surveillance.
Luis Lozano and Eric Mitchell They were called in to prevent a grocery store robbery, but They preferred to continue marrying Pokémon.
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The communications system of the radio patrol of the two uniformed men managed to record when one of them claimed that he saw a Snorlax, apparently a difficult pokémon to capture in this video game of augmented reality.
In the Police document, it is evidenced that “as they went to the location of the Snorlax, Officer Mitchell advises Officer Lozano that ‘a Togetic just appeared ”,
The cops captured the Snorlax and they followed the other virtual creature. “This thing is beating me,” Mitchell said. referring to Togetic.
In the recent trial (on the fact what happened in the month April 2017). The officers were charged with misconduct; the policemen acknowledged having ignored the call, but denied that they were playing Pokémon Go, said in turn that they were talking about the video game, but not playing it.