GPS DOES THE LEGWORK AS COPS TRACK SUSPECTS.(MAIN)

Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer

When authorities say an Oneida County lawyer was delivering shipments of methamphetamine for the Hells Angels last year, police tracked his movements as he drove from Utica to the Capital Region and beyond.

But Robert Moran Jr. had no chance of spotting the cops in his rearview mirror, because they weren't there.

Instead, detectives in Utica, who were part of a multiagency task force investigating the motorcycle club, had attached a global positioning system tracking device to the underbelly of Moran's car. They simply waited, and when they were ready, punched some keys on a computer and printed out maps of every place he visited.

While GPS devices are increasingly becoming a tool for law enforcement, their use is stirring controversy because police …