However, if this is true about using cell phone tracking and seeing that his movements were mirroring those of the victims, that is going to be hard to explain away, much are this can't be explained away:
But given that the Constitutional Republic we live in is no longer bound by laws depending on who is engaging in a given process, I would not be surprised to see this mishandled.
I do feel like the other poster, cyclotic, that the cop who is blabbering about this does need to be sanctioned in some way.