Crime blotter: 12 charged in London Apple Store thefts
Crime blotter: 12 charged in London Apple Store thefts
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Manchester Arndale Apple Store. After a series of 13 robberies at different Apple Stores in the London area, police made several arrests. Meanwhile, a Pennsylvania man has been jailed for an Apple gift card "draining scam.". The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.
Twelve people, 11 of them minors, have been charged for their part in a series of 13 robberies at Apple Stores in and around London. According to The Daily Mail, the robberies took place over three weeks at Apple Store locations at Regent Street, Brent Cross, Bromley, Bentalls Centre and Watford. Among the criminal charges were conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to steal from a shop, while another was hit with a drug charge.
In an unrelated Apple Store theft elsewhere in the U.K., a man was caught on video stealing a display iPhone. When a store employee asked him to leave, the man fled the store. According to the The Daily Mail, which described the suspect as a "deerstalker hat-wearing red-bearded crook," the theft took place on January 14 at the Arndale Shopping Center in Manchester.
NEW: Thief snatches an iPhone from an Apple Store display and flees after being stopped from stealing other devices. The incident happened at the Apple Store in Manchester's Arndale shopping center. An Apple employee asked the man to leave as he appeared to be trying to remove pic.twitter.com/2YFFe0627d.
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