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In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a USPS worker is sentenced for taking iPads, Find My iPhone recovers stolen iPhones from a euphony festival, and counterfeit wealth utilized successful iPhone merchantability leads to arrests.

The latest successful an occasional AppleInsider series, looking astatine the satellite of Apple-related crime.

Chicago-area Apple Store is robbed

Police are looking for 5 radical who they accidental carried out a theft of the Apple Store successful Orland Park, Ill. According to Fox 32, the theft claimed astir 5 iPhones and 2 Apple Watches, and constabulary accidental the aforesaid unit is suspected successful a akin caller theft successful Oak Brook.

The video of the incidental was obtained and posted by section police:

Apple Store theft successful California

Meanwhile, successful California, determination was different Apple Store theft astatine the extremity of October. Thieves struck the Apple Store successful Monterey, Calif., arsenic 3 men successful achromatic hoodies stole $60,000 worthy of items, reports KSBW.

The accused thieves past led constabulary connected a precocious schoolhouse chase, successful a achromatic Chevy Malibu with stolen plates.

Two charged successful Apple Store theft successful U.K.

Two men were charged for stealing 9,000 pounds (about $10,600) worthy of iPhones from the Apple Store successful Norwich, successful the U.K. According to the Norfolk Constabulary, a bystander was "assaulted and suffered cuts and bruises to the look whilst trying to intervene."

Gun recovered from the hunt for stolen AirPods

A California pistillate had her AirPods stolen, and aft she tracked them, the awesome led instrumentality enforcement to hunt the spot wherever they were found. There, constabulary found and recovered not lone the AirPods but besides a stolen gun.

Signal SCV reports the fishy was booked connected suspicion of receiving stolen spot and weapons violations.

USPS worker sentenced for stealing iPads

A Massachusetts antheral who worked for the Postal Service and who stands accused of stealing 2 iPads and different items from the message has pled blameworthy to 1 number of theft of message by an worker of the U.S. Postal Service.

According to Mass Live, among the items stolen were 2 iPads that had been delivered to Harvard University, arsenic good arsenic cash.

Find My iPhone helps way down much than 90 iPhones stolen from euphony festival

Music festivals are often plagued by thieves looking to bargain smartphones, and this year's Escape Music Festival successful California was nary exception. Nearly 100 phones were taken, often by pickpockets.

NBC Los Angeles explains however 1 of the theft victims utilized Find My iPhone to way his phone, and ended up uncovering it.

The study said that the antheral and his person drove 60 miles, noticed the telephone was nary longer moving, and past called the police. The Downey Police Department recovered 92 phones successful a brace of garbage bags.

Arrests made aft iPhone is sold for fake money

Police successful North Carolina arrested 3 radical for equipped robbery aft they claimed they were offering an iPhone for merchantability and bought it with counterfeit money. According to CBS 17, the merchantability was arranged done Facebook Marketplace, and aft the seller complained that the wealth was fake, the counterparts pulled a weapon and ran.

The Morrisville Police set up a sting soon aft and arrested the men arsenic soon arsenic they arrived, and they had a stolen MacBook successful their possession arsenic well.

The suspects were charged with galore crimes, including equipped robbery, conspiracy to perpetrate equipped robbery, possession of a stolen firearm, battle by pointing a gun, possession of a counterfeit instrument, obtaining spot by mendacious pretense, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of marijuana.

iPhone 14 Pro Max stolen from a antheral earlier helium could prime it up

A antheral who lives successful Chandler's Ford successful the U.K. ordered an iPhone 14 Pro Max and went to prime it up from a section store, lone to findthat it had been stolen before helium could adjacent prime it up.

According to The Daily Echo, the antheral was told by the store that they could bash thing astir the stolen phone, and erstwhile helium called Apple, they said they couldn't bash thing unless they received a printed hard transcript of a constabulary report, which could instrumentality months.

Ultimately, Apple agreed to proviso him with a replacement.

iPad stolen from room successful California

Police successful Gilroy, Calif., are looking for a man who they accidental stole an iPad from the town's room and sold it online. KRON reports the iPad was stolen from the room astatine 3 a.m. and sold extracurricular a Starbucks astir 7 hours later.

The antheral who bought the iPad did not cognize it was stolen, the study said.