‘Instant messaging helped police respond to recent emergencies on opposite sides of the country, and law-enforcement agencies are figuring out how to embrace the popular real-time communication tool.

Earlier this month, a couple and their teenage son were home in Bangor, Maine, when three men forced their way inside. The intruders locked the mother and son in a bedroom and assaulted the father in an attempt to steal prescription drugs, said Sgt. Paul Kenison, a 13-year veteran detective of the Bangor Police Department. ‘

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