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Posted on 05/10/2014 11:15:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A suspect smashed a car into an Apple store in Berkeley early Friday morning and made off with merchandise, police said.
Berkeley police responded around 2:52 a.m. to a report of an alarm from the Apple store at 1823 Fourth St. and discovered a car inside the store surrounded by glass debris.
Officers checked the vehicle and found it was empty, but noticed “signs of prowl” inside the business.
Officers conducted a search of the business but did not find any suspects. An investigation revealed that several Apple products were stolen, including several laptops and iPhone.
McDonald's Tests Seasoned French Fries in U.S. AppleInsider.com posted pictures of the aftermath of the crash, which showed that the car aimed at the store's front doors, damaging them and the metal security gate.
Based on the information officers have at this point, it appears the suspect deliberately drove the vehicle into the store in order to burglarize the business. The store remained closed today as workers tried to repair the damage.A suspect drove through the glass windows of the Apple store in Berkeley early Friday morning, May 9, 2014, and made off with store merchandise, police said. Apple store burglary in Berkeley. Photo courtesy Berkeleyside/Mickey Novello
Some Apple store employees could be seen helping customers with Genius Bar appointments on the sidewalk. A few customers described the burglary as "brazen."
"This is not the kind of crime we normally see for sure in Berkeley, in this part of Berkeley, it's definitely disappointing," said Berkeley resident Pam Gray.
Vehicular smash-and-grabs have been reported at other Apple stores around the world, including and the company'sTemecula, Calif., store.
Surveillance video from the Temecula Apple Store shows a BMW smashing into the store's glass doors and plouging down display tables, a man in a mask grabbing as many devices as possible.
Maybe womyn’s studies, black studies, LGBT studies, BWP (beer, wine, and pot) studies.
RIe Awn.... RIte Awn!!
This sort of MO has been going on in the East Bay recently.
Same in MO in a robbery where a car smashed through Macy’s in Walnut Creek not long ago.
Sounds like they need to place some iBollards in front of each store.
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Oh come on!
More sanctimonius pc crap from the mouth of Berkeleytonians.
That neighborhood ,so close to the freeway, is just the type of gentrified place you would see this happening.
They may well have said:”crime in Berkeley”?
“ Well we are just so well educated and above it all.”
Their mentality is up so far up their A**.
Apple.
Free Apple products are now a human right.
Let’s see the libs at Apple start handing them out to the po’ folk.
Because Windows Sync in my Ford got the BSOD blues and the car is dead.
Good response.
How could you miss *this* news, inserted bizarrely into the article?
“McDonald’s Tests Seasoned French Fries in U.S.”
Subliminal suggestion!
Same in MO in a robbery where a car smashed through Macy’s in Walnut Creek not long ago.
Best Buy got wise to these types of robberies and "thug-proofed" their stores with security bollards a long time ago.
Wait, did you just get back from smashing a car into a McDonald’s?
They couldn’t have gotten much. Very little actual merchandise is in the store area. They have a storeroom separate from the store that is like Fort Knox. That’s where they keep the expensive stuff. Most likely they only made off with a bunch of accessories like phone cases and cables.
LOL!
Nah.
;)
And even if they did get some phones and tablets, I'm pretty certain Apple has the capability to brick anything that's been stolen, --after they've located it via GPS.
The nearby MS store was also crashed into by a vehicle, but it was a van, which backed through the front window, the doors swung open, and the masked ne’er-do-wells inside threw out hundreds of unopened Zunes, then they fled in the vehicle.
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