Call of Duty helps police capture a fugitive prisoner, Clint Butler
The British police managed to arrest a fugitive criminal thanks to the game Call of Duty, where the beginning of the story goes back to "Clint Butler", a 26-year-old person serving a prolonged 17-year sentence in HMB prison Spring Hill in Buckinghamshire, UK, who escaped He was released from prison in November 2020 and has been in hiding since then, according to the Indian website gadgetsnow.
But then, with the outbreak of the Corona lockdown, it was difficult for everyone including this fugitive, as he suffered from depression due to the ban at home, so, after he managed to hide for several months, one day, on the 13th January 2021, Butler decides to acquire a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
And this was his bug, as he was spotted and arrested by the local police while purchasing the game, according to a report from Kotaku.
Butler had previously received a lengthy 17-year prison sentence for crimes including "crimes of theft and firearms," and according to the report, he ventured out with his friend on January 13 to buy a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. West Midlands, both of them changed direction to avoid them, except that the policemen surrounded them at the end and began to interrogate them, when asked what he was doing outside in the case of Corona ban, and he reportedly said, "I have come to get a new Call of Duty because I can't sit somewhere Closed."
The report says that Butler also attacked a policeman when he was asked about some other details, the result of which was an additional 6 months to attack a police officer.