Phones Stolen at Escape Music Festival Recovered by Pair of Friends - NBC Southern California

Downey Police recovered astir 100 compartment phones, each believed to person been stolen from the aforesaid lawsuit this weekend.

Dozens of radical came to Downey to retrieve stolen phones today. They were each pick-pocketed Friday night, and galore believed they’d ne'er spot their telephone again, but acknowledgment to immoderate detective enactment from a brace of friends, a batch of radical person their phones back.

It each started astatine the Escape Music Festival successful San Bernardino connected Friday night.

"A batch of radical travel for the euphony and a batch of radical travel to conscionable bask themselves," said Amir Anderson, whose person had his telephone stolen.

"He virtually conscionable had it arsenic helium was walking retired and he’s like, 'I can’t find it,'" said Anderson.

Anderson past had his person america the "Find My" diagnostic connected the iPhone, wherever they perpetually shared their determination with each other. That's erstwhile they noticed his friend's missing compartment telephone was connected the determination and decided to travel it.

"So we caput down the 10, they took the 605, from the 605 to the 5, and they got disconnected connected Norwalk," helium explained.

After driving 60 miles, they ended up successful Downey and noticed the telephone was nary longer moving, truthful they called the police.

"We fto the relation cognize the determination is staying inactive now, we deliberation they got retired and got successful the house. We don’t spot the car, but the telephone is refreshing and saying it’s here," recalled Anderson.

Once the officers arrived they made a discovery, according to Anderson, "She walked backmost to the grass, and they some moved the flowers and picked up 2 large trash bags filled with phones."

The serviceman recovered 92 compartment phones, including Amir's friend's, successful the 2 large garbage bags.

On Tuesday, dozens of radical packed a lobby astatine Downey Police Department, trying to retrieve their phones aft each 1 of them was pick-pocketed connected Friday nighttime successful San Bernardino.

"Somebody decidedly pick-pocketed me, due to the fact that I retrieve having it earlier I walked into the event," said Dereck Nguyen, 1 of the victims of the theft.

"We’re successful a crowd, truthful I thought they were trying to weave their mode through. I didn’t deliberation idiosyncratic was pick-pocketing me," recalled different unfortunate of the Friday nighttime theft, Adriana Zepeda.

Shelley Quash and her person were some victims of the theft, "She was like, 'Oh hey, wherefore is your fanny battalion open?' and past she was like, 'Ok, telephone check,' and past we were looking done our container and it was conscionable gone."

But now, acknowledgment to exertion and a persistent pick-pocket victim, dozens of radical person their phones back.

"A batch of radical were congratulating me, a batch were thanking, immoderate radical were messaging maine and said that their telephone was there, truthful it feels bully to person helped a full clump of people," said Anderson.

Downey Police did not marque an arrest. In fact, since the pick-pocketing happened successful San Bernardino, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office volition instrumentality implicit the investigation.

If you had your telephone stolen:

1. Come to Downey Police to retrieve it.
2. File a constabulary study with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office.