While searching for a job, a lady was jailed after she was caught taking an iPhone. Duke students also had their Apple products taken.
This is the latest in a series of infrequent AppleInsider reports on Apple-related criminality.
The Apple Store in Nanuet, New York, was robbed of $4,000 in products.
An Apple Store in Nanuet, New York, where three men are accused of stealing roughly $4,000 worth of products, was broken into in January, according to the local police. Apple Pencils and AirPods were among the stolen items, according to News 12. The robbers were wearing “COVID-19 safety masks,” according to News 12.
Fraudulent iPhone theft while filling out employment application: Texas lady
A lady was arrested for stealing an iPhone after a peculiar series of events occurred in Texas at the end of January.
After almost causing a collision, Nester says the lady was originally pulled over for a driving infraction. The officer soon realised that the motorist was a woman with outstanding warrants, and he contacted the proper authorities.
A second automobile pulled up, and the driver said that the first lady had just taken her sister’s iPhone. The first lady was filling out a job application at a restaurant at the time of the robbery, according to the report.
This led to the first lady being charged with theft as well as crimes relating to the outstanding warrants, according to the video footage from the restaurant.
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Best Buy in Pennsylvania was raided and robbed of iPhones and iPads
A Best Buy in Selinsgrove, Pa., was robbed in early February by three guys who snatched iPhones and iPads from an Apple display case. State troopers told WKOK that the three males wandered the shop before settling on the Apple display and severing security wires.
An additional $1,000 in damage was incurred in the theft of five iPhones and two iPads totaling $5,650.
Accused of taking iPads from the city’s IT department
In Hamilton, Ontario, a 30-year-old former municipal employee was accused with stealing and reselling public iPads in early February. In a report by CHCH, police said they seized “a number” of iPads from local buy-and-sell sites.
He is “no longer an employee” of the city, and he faces theft and trafficking charges.
An iPad Pro was utilised to track down a suspect in a robbery of a neighbor’s property
This guy, 60, was caught in the first week of February stealing $2,500 worth of equipment from his neighbor’s house in Florida.
Ocala News reports that the woman’s iPad Pro, laptop, and DVD player were all taken, but she was able to trace the iPad down to a neighbor’s home.
A trailer near the man’s house eventually turned up the stolen goods, according to police. He has been charged with burglary and grand theft under $5,000, both felonies, after his arrest.
This TikTok video was used to find stolen AirPods
While working out at Planet Fitness, a TikTok user realised that his AirPods had vanished. He used Find My iPhone to hunt them down and then uploaded the entire incident to his account.
They arrived to a woman’s house where the AirPods were located and talked to her. The poster identified the woman’s kid from the gym as the assailant in the video. The AirPods were successfully locked in place.