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WATCH — Police: California Man Steals $49K Worth of iPhones from Apple Store
Breitbart ^ | 02/09/2024 | Amy Furr

Posted on 02/09/2024 12:56:14 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Police arrested a suspect Wednesday after a brazen theft inside an Apple Store in Berkeley, California, where shocked customers watched the scene unfold.

Detectives with the Emeryville Police Department took Tyler Mims into custody, Fox Business reported Thursday.

Video footage shows the suspect, wearing all black and a pair of red shoes, allegedly grabbing items inside the store and ripping their cords out of the display tables. The store’s alarm is heard, and people are seen watching from a distance.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; california; californication; crime; iphones; police; steals; theft
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To: Nifster

Yes, true. But he likely immediately went out and sold them cheaply to other idiots who thought they’d work.


21 posted on 02/09/2024 1:08:13 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad they can’t design the iPhones such that the minute they are signaled to be bricked they make an ear-piercing screech that can’t be stopped unless the battery drains or the internal battery is disconnected.


22 posted on 02/09/2024 1:08:23 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

23 posted on 02/09/2024 1:12:56 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My understanding is that the phones stolen become useless, because the phone manufacturers have the serial numbers and they just paperweight the phones.

The only value they would have is finding a sucker who thinks he’s getting a deal.

However, there could be some technological to bypass the safeguards for all I know.


24 posted on 02/09/2024 1:14:02 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It used to be the average bank robbery netted app. 5k


25 posted on 02/09/2024 1:14:02 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Nifster

> Man is stupid. Not a one of them will work outside the store

Totally correct in all aspects. Apple disables any new devices that have been stolen from apple stores.

This guy sells the iphones to street hawkers who in turn sell to passers-by on the street who think they are getting a discount deal. Unfortunately for them they are buying boat anchors.

I imagine apple charges the lost inventory to an accounting category called the “cost of doing business” — or something similar.


26 posted on 02/09/2024 1:14:11 PM PST by SteveH
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but these phones are basically useless, are they not?

They won’t be allowed to connect to a wireless service, and also Apple can control the device and leave it “locked.”

Or do criminal gangs have the ability to manipulate them to make these devices useful?


27 posted on 02/09/2024 1:15:33 PM PST by PGR88
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To: job

Hard to blame anyone for not getting involved with our poisoned culture.
Anyone trying to stop a criminal is most likely to be the one ending up in jail, financially ruined, killed or fired. Or, any combination.


28 posted on 02/09/2024 1:15:42 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: Nifster; SaveFerris

29 posted on 02/09/2024 1:15:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He has a family to feed and medical school tuition to pay.


30 posted on 02/09/2024 1:15:54 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I saw that today. Obviously white supremacy.


31 posted on 02/09/2024 1:16:05 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: CatOwner

Apple has the tech to track the phones even if they are shut down

They had this guy aced before he knew he busted

Industrial grade stupid

He will probably be release without bail and never be heard from again

Its Oakland, after all


32 posted on 02/09/2024 1:16:29 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: No name given

I really don’t understand why so many blacks feel it’s simply their right to go into a store and take whatever they want, UNEARNED, and there are apparently no criminal consequences to it. It’s not a victimless crime, because the cost of what they steal eventually comes out of the pockets of the honest, paying customers. When did I ever sign up for them to have better phones, TVs, clothing, etc. than I worked for, simply by stealing it?


33 posted on 02/09/2024 1:17:25 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Hey, don’t underestimate him. He might have been building a rocketship.


34 posted on 02/09/2024 1:17:38 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How can they report the man’s wardrobe but not his skin color?


35 posted on 02/09/2024 1:18:17 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: EinNYC

They consider it reparations. They want the backpay for the cotton they picked.


36 posted on 02/09/2024 1:18:33 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: unixfox

We’re not in the era of the Rooftop Koreans any more. Back then, DAs everywhere were sympathetic to folks who went to the defense of lives and property.

Now I wouldn’t intervene in a property crime under any circumstances. To help a person who’s being attacked, yes. But even then that’s rolling the dice. Remember that Marine who intervened on a NYC subway? He’s charged with murder.

Disclaimer: I live in a very blue county. I might think differently if elsewhere.


37 posted on 02/09/2024 1:19:36 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: PGR88

Criminal gangs are multi-billion dollar operations and multi-faceyed, so they probably have people within whose job it is to bypass Big Tech safeguards.


38 posted on 02/09/2024 1:21:07 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FYI

APPL hates our guts.

Most likely the city this took place in hates our guts

in a state that hates our guts.

I’m sure there is good reason beyond boo boo to care but it escapes me.


39 posted on 02/09/2024 1:22:26 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“California Man Steals $49K Worth of iPhones from Apple Store”

Wow, that must be dozens of them!


40 posted on 02/09/2024 1:27:01 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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