Crime blotter: Best Buy lines and Porsche tracking
Police sought a man in an iPhone theft at a casino, and a man is accused of stealing iPads from a company that had just fired him,, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter. The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series on the world of Apple-related crime. Man in Best Buy line has iPhone stolen A man waiting in line for nearly 40 hours at a West Hollywood Best Buy for a new Pokemon card release had his iPhone 17 Plus stolen, although he later tracked it and got it back.
- ▪Police sought a man in an iPhone theft at a casino, and a man is accused of stealing iPads from a company that had just fired him,, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter.
- ▪The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series on the world of Apple-related crime.
- ▪Man in Best Buy line has iPhone stolen A man waiting in line for nearly 40 hours at a West Hollywood Best Buy for a new Pokemon card release had his iPhone 17 Plus stolen, although he later tracked it and got it back.
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| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:17:55 +0000 |
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News Crime blotter: Best Buy lines and Porsche tracking Stephen Silver 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Sun Sep 20 2026, 07:17 AM EDT · 3 minute read The latest in an occasional series on the world of Apple-related crime.iPhone 17 review, one year later: This thing is still gigantic in my tiny, little baby hands. Police sought a man in an iPhone theft at a casino, and a man is accused of stealing iPads from a company that had just fired him,, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter. The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series on the world of Apple-related crime.
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