I wonder if she's still smiling now that @ElCerritoPD has put her picture out there? pic.twitter.com/tJS6E8ZXab — Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) November 19, 2015 
 
 .@ElCerritoPD getting many tips about woman. Think suspect uploaded selfies from stolen phone to iCloud by mistake. pic.twitter.com/S2p8AxX2iR — Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) November 18, 2015 
 
 .@ElCerritoPD Cops don't think this suspect knew her selfies would transfer to ICloud from phone stolen from teen. pic.twitter.com/BwgIOmdfgN — Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) November 18, 2015 
 
 Police in El Cerrito are asking for the public's help to catch a woman they say is a violent suspect who may get caught because of her own mistake. And the case may be cracked by a selfie.According to authorities, the smiling woman in the selfies is actually a violent thief who beat up a teenage girl to steal the phone that took these pictures.A young El Cerrito High School student was walking to class talking on her iPhone when a car rolled up and a woman jumped out and demanded her phone and backpack and then started punching the girl."She hit the juvenile in the head several times causing some minor injuries to her facial area," said Sgt. Ian Wong. And actually caused her to lose consciousness and go to the ground."Several days later, while recovering from her injuries, the young victim found the selfies on her iCloud account and recognized the woman as her attacker."I don't think she knew it was being uploaded to the cloud. I think they were assuming it was on the factory default settings," Wong said.Students say nearly everyone has a smartphone, but some protect them better than others.While one student said she probably wouldn't do anything different, student Devin Emelo said, "Don't like be showing and trying to be flashy with your phone and stuff like that. Stop showing people you have nice stuff, because people might be wanting the stuff that you have."As for the woman who snapped those incriminating selfies, another student said, "That's kinda dumb to take pictures of yourself." ||||| Authorities are hoping to find new clues in the Boston Marathon bombing case by poring over a laptop belonging to one of the suspects and learning what the other told his wife in a phone call days after the blast, sources told ABC News. 
 
 Robert Stahl, an attorney for a friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said his client had taken Dzhokhar's laptop from his room but turned it over to the FBI "the very first time" agents came to see him late Friday, four days after the bombing. 
 
 Stahl's client, 19-year-old Dias Kadyrbayev, was charged along with another 19-year-old friend with conspiracy to obstruct justice for taking the laptop and allegedly trying to dump a backpack full of fireworks -- which had been emptied of their powder -- also belonging to Dzhokhar after they realized Dzhokhar was involved in the bombing. After the teens' court appearance Wednesday, Stahl denied his client knew Dzhokhar was involved in the attack at the time and said Kadyrbayev did not think the items were of evidentiary value. 
 
 A law enforcement official also told ABC News today that the FBI is seeking to find out what the other bombing suspect, Dzhokhar's older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, told his wife in a phone call shortly after the FBI released his photo to the public three days after the attack. The official said only the woman, Katherine Russell, knows the content of the conversation. 
 
 Russell's attorney said in a statement Tuesday that she was providing "as much assistance to the investigation as she can." 
 
 Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of planting two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. When the bombs exploded, three people were killed and more than 260 others were injured. Three days after the bombing the FBI released surveillance images of the suspects, who they had not yet identified, in hopes the public may be able to track them down. Hours later, Tamerlan was killed in a firefight with police. Dzhokhar escaped for a while but was injured and eventually caught on April 19. 
 
 Terrel Harris, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, told ABC News that Tamerlan's body will be released from his office today to Tamerlan's family. 
 
 Wednesday authorities arrested three 19-year-old friends of Dzhokhar's: Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both students originally from Kazakhstan, and American Robel Phillipos. In addition to the conspiracy to obstruct charges against Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, Phillipos is charged with lying to federal investigators. 
 
 Attorneys for the Kazakh students said their clients had nothing to do with the bombings, and they disputed parts of the criminal complaint against their clients. An attorney for Phillipos reportedly said his client was not connected to the bombing or to the Kazakh students' actions and downplayed his client's alleged lies as "misrepresentations." 
 
 Charging documents filed Wednesday against Dzhokhar's friends revealed new details in the case, including an exchange that took place a month before the attack in which Dzhokhar allegedly bragged that he knew how to build explosive devices. Dzhokhar also allegedly responded to one of his friends who asked if was the suspect shown in FBI photos with "LOL." 
 
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 ABC News' Lee Ferran contributed to this report. ||||| The gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl on school grounds after her homecoming dance was horrific enough. But even more shocking, police say, was that up to two dozen people watched and did nothing to stop it. 
 
 The picnic area at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif. where police said a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009, is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. According... (Associated Press) 
 
 CORRECTS DAY OF DANCE TO SATURDAY Police cars sit parked outside Richmond High School on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Richmond, Calif. Authorities are investigating the rape and beating of a 15-year-old... (Associated Press) 
 
 CORRECTS DAY OF DANCE TO SATURDAY -- Sergeant Eddie Russell escorts a possible witness to his patrol car outside Richmond High School on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Richmond, Calif. A 15-year-old girl... (Associated Press) 
 
 This undated booking photo provided by the Richmond Police Department shows Manuel Ortega. Ortega, 19, is charged with rape, robbery and kidnapping in connection with the assault of a 15-year-old girl... (Associated Press) 
 
 The picnic area at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif. where police said a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009, is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. According... (Associated Press) 
 
 The attack over the weekend rattled this crime-ridden city of 120,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, where one police official called it one of the most heinous crimes he has ever seen. Some students have already left the school in response to the attack. 
 
 "It's not safe there at all," said 16-year-old Jennie Steinberg, whose mother let her transfer out of the school Tuesday. "I'm not going back." 
 
 The victim, a sophomore, had left the dance and was drinking alcohol in a school courtyard with a group when she was attacked, police said. 
 
 Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as seven ranging in age from 15 to mid-20s attacked the girl for more than two hours at a dimly lit area near benches Saturday night. As many as two-dozen people saw the rape without notifying police. 
 
 Officers found the girl semiconscious and naked from the waist down near a picnic table. She remains hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. 
 
 "This was a barbaric act. I still cannot get my head around the fact that numerous people either watched, walked away or participated in her assault," Lt. Mark Gagan said Tuesday. "It's one of the most disturbing crimes in my 15 years as a police officer." 
 
 Gagan would not comment on rumors that observers took video of the attack on cell phones and may have posted it online. 
 
 Manuel Ortega, a 19-year-old former student, was arrested after trying to flee the scene. He is being held on $800,000 bail for investigation of rape and robbery. Attempts to reach Ortega at the jail Tuesday were unsuccessful. 
 
 A 15-year-old student also was booked late Monday on one count of sexual assault, Gagan said. 
 
 Late Tuesday, SWAT teams were preparing to make more arrests as police are also offering a $20,000 reward they hope will bring more people forward with any information. 
 
 Even though he said as many as two-dozen people were witnesses, Gagan said officials are still trying to determine the exact number of people involved. 
 
 "I'm confident that the list will expand and at the end of our investigation we will get a clear indication of who was there and who did what," Gagan said. 
 
 The attack occurred in a city that has dealt with its share of vicious crimes in recent years, and the school recently approved surveillance cameras after a series of violent crimes. In one case a few years back, a student was shot outside the school, ran inside and died in the then-principal's hands, said Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District. 
 
 Richmond is an industrialized conclave near the San Francisco Bay that is known as one of the nation's most dangerous cities. In 2007, Richmond had 47 homicides, and the murder rate led the state for cities with populations of 100,000 or more, surpassing Los Angeles and Oakland. 
 
 That number dropped to 27 in 2008 but has spiked to 44 killings so far this year, amid drug dealing and gang activity that has engulfed the town, Gagan said. 
 
 Gagan said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The girl had consumed a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said. Gagan said the girl's father tried to call her cell phone, but no one answered. 
 
 Gagan said police received a tip about a possible assault on campus from a young woman who heard two males bragging about it. She was found nearly an hour after the dance, which more than 400 people attended, had ended.
– People just don't learn, do they? A woman who allegedly stole a high school student's iPhone in California has given police a break in the case thanks to … a selfie—or rather, several of them. Police say an as-yet unidentified woman approached the 15-year-old student in El Cerrito on Nov. 5, demanding that she hand over her phone and backpack, reports the Los Angeles Times. When the girl refused, the suspect allegedly knocked her unconscious with a punch, took the student’s phone, dragged her a short distance, then took the girl's backpack, per the Oakland Tribune. The woman then escaped in a tan Honda or Toyota which was also carrying four males, authorities say. Days later, the student, who had to visit a hospital for treatment, found several smiling selfies of her alleged attacker on her iCloud account and sent them to police. "I don't think she knew it was being uploaded to the cloud. I think they were assuming it was on the factory default settings," an officer tells ABC7. Authorities have released three images of the woman—which show many more selfies were taken—and say tips are pouring in. (Click for more ill-advised selfies.)