Grosse Pointe police investigate mysterious selfie sent on stolen phone

GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – Grosse Pointe police usually don't spend their time looking at selfies -- they are not the selfie police.

However, this one caught their eye. It was taken with a stolen iPhone 6.

"Not very often that you send a picture back on a phone you have in your possession that you either know is stolen or have stolen it," said Stephen Poloni, Grosse Pointe's director of public safety.

The phone was stolen at Elworthy Field earlier this month and police say right after it was taken someone sent a text to the phone. And they got this back in return: a selfie.

"So the person that got the picture back called the owner of the phone right away and said, 'Hey I texted your telephone and this is what I got back, a picture of this," said Poloni.

Now police want to talk with this teenager seen in the selfie wearing a white T-shirt and a red ball cap. They don't believe the younger girl in the selfie wearing a blue shirt with a logo on the front is connected to the stolen phone.

"He is a person of interest at this point. We would like to ask about the phone and his picture," said Poloni.