{"id":260249,"date":"2026-05-31T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:00:16","slug":"crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime blotter: Man arrrested for $31,000 iPhone theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft\">Crime blotter: Man arrrested for $31,000 iPhone theft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft\">https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 07:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"appleinsider.com\">appleinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">London iPhone theft victims have reported threats, AirTag catches a burglar in Pittsburgh, and California prisoners did not receive iPads, all in this week&#8217;s Apple Crime Blotter.\n<\/p>\n<p>The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"chicago-man-arrested-in-31000-iphone-theft\" id=\"chicago-man-arrested-in-31000-iphone-theft\">Chicago man arrested in $31,000 iPhone theft<\/h2>\n<p>A 34-year-old temporary employee at a logistics facility in Illinois has been charged with stealing $31,000 worth of iPhones from the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox 32 Chicago, the man was caught on security footage entering a trailer, and later concealing the approximately 40 stolen iPhones in a sweater.\n<\/p>\n<p>The man, who lives in Chicago, was charged with a felony count of theft.\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"london-iphone-theft-victims-report-threats\" id=\"london-iphone-theft-victims-report-threats\">London iPhone theft victims report threats<\/h2>\n<p>The city of London has, in recent years, suffered a massive wave of iPhone thefts, with 81,000 reported stolen in 2024 and 71,000 in 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported on May 23 that many of those victimized by such thefts have subsequently received threatening phone calls and text messages from the thieves.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know who you are and where you live,&#8221; was the message received by a Chicago resident whose iPhone was stolen in London. &#8220;I&#8217;ve killed or far less than a phone before.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The threats, the newspaper said, have often been tied to the thieves&#8217; desire to have the victims unlink their IDs from the stolen devices.\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"airtag-helps-catch-man-accused-of-multiple-crimes-in-pittsburgh\" id=\"airtag-helps-catch-man-accused-of-multiple-crimes-in-pittsburgh\">AirTag helps catch man accused of multiple crimes in Pittsburgh<\/h2>\n<p>A man accused of both sexual assault and burglary has been caught after he stole an AirTag from the victim&#8217;s home.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS News Pittsburgh, the AirTag and $2 in cash were both taken from the victim&#8217;s home. Police followed the ping to a nearby location where the man was arrested, while fingerprints left at the scene also pointed to that particular suspect.\n<\/p>\n<p>He confessed to the assault, but not to the theft of the AirTag. He has been charged with burglary, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault.\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"no-california-prisoners-were-not-given-free-ipads\" id=\"no-california-prisoners-were-not-given-free-ipads\">No, California prisoners were&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime blotter: Man arrrested for $31,000 iPhone theft https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/31\/crime-blotter-man-arrrested-for-31000-iphone-theft Publish Date: 2026-05-31 07:32:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/67755-142858-maninhandcuffs-xl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-260249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260251,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260249\/revisions\/260251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}