Jobs' Burglary Manhunt Yields Kenny the Clown

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 19, 2012 @12:22AM from the mastermind-with-a-big-red-nose dept.

theodp writes "Even in death, Steve Jobs managed to get specialists from the Apple-friendly Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) to team up again with Apple investigators and local police to track down the whereabouts of a stolen Apple device. Unlike a 2010 stolen iPhone prototype incident, which ended with a raid on a Gizmodo editor's home, this new investigation into the $60K burglary of the late Apple CEO's under-renovation Palo Alto home ended with the recapture of an iPad from Kenny the Clown, who accepted the device as payment of a debt owed to him by burglary suspect Kariem McFarlin. PCWorld has the details of how Palo Alto Police, REACT, and Apple investigators connected the dots to track down Jobs' stolen iPads, which may trouble some privacy advocates."

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Re:So when do *I* get this type of service? by UnknowingFool · 2012-08-19 01:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Police found the iPads using the same method every iPad owner has with Find my iPad. Of course, because it's Apple and Steve Jobs, it's easier to just get rant about without any information. You can google many cases where iPad/iPhone owners retrieved their devices.

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Re:So when do *I* get this type of service? by mbone · 2012-08-19 02:07 · Score: 4, Informative

When you turn on Find My iPad.