Police in Jacksonville, Florida, say a family of virtual Miis helped them return a stolen Wii to its rightful owner after a burglary. Meg Witherspoon reported to police that her house had been burglarized. Among the items taken were a flatscreen television and a Wii game system. Over the course of the next couple of days after the burglary, Latrina Shepard pawned a 19-inch TV and a Wii at two different pawn shops, telling the proprietors that she owned the electronics. Police were finally able to confirm that the TV actually belonged to Witherspoon by matching the serial number to the one she had given them. But Witherspoon didn’t have the serial number for her Wii. Instead, when police found the Wii at the second pawn shop they were able to confirm that it was hers based on the Mii avatars she, her daughter and two sons created and stored on the device. Shepard was charged with illegal pawning, a third-degree felony.
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