Junior Metelus’ luck ran out long before police dogs bit and pulled him from beneath a shed early Tuesday.

Everywhere the armed-robbery suspect tried to hide, Orlando cops followed.

A stolen iPhone in his pocket — snatched at gunpoint from a victim near Lake Eola Park — pinpointed wherever he went with his alleged accomplices.

After the 3 a.m. robbery, police used the Find My iPhone app to track him down, Officer Joseph Catanzaro wrote in a report.

“The phone was initially located in the area of Lee Road and Interstate 4,” his report said. “The phone continued tracking westbound … I relayed the phone’s positioning over my department radio to assisting units.”

A chase began when a police car with flashing emergency lights pulled behind the suspects’ stolen Honda Accord. The suspects abandoned the car on North Pine Hills Road and ran through nearby apartment complexes. Two got away, but Metelus, 19, was found trying to hide under a shed with the stolen iPhone, police said.

Police also recovered drivers licenses, credit cards and other items taken in the robbery, records state.

Metelus was treated afterward at a local hospital before being booked at the Orange County Jail.

Similar recoveries of stolen iPhones across the U.S. have become increasingly common in recent years.

The teen, however, may not face trial.

Last month, Metelus was declared incompetent and mentally unable to stand trial in a 2013 burglary case after he was examined by two psychiatrists and treated at an Orlando mental-health facility, court records show. Records show he was first arrested at 14. He was charged as a juvenile with false imprisonment and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in Osceola County, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The charges were dismissed. Metelus remains held without bail on charges of robbery with a firearm, false imprisonment with a firearm, aggravated assault with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.

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