San Francisco Police Did Assist Apple in House Search of iPhone 5

[MacRumors]

Contrary to previous statements, SFWeekly reports that the San Francisco Police Department admits to assisting Apple investigators with the search of a lost iPhone 5. An earlier report suggested that Apple had acted on its own without the participation of the police department.

Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that "three or four" SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man's home.

The four plainclothes San Francisco Department Police officers accompanied two Apple investigators to the home of Sergio Calderón. According to the most recent report, only the two Apple employees entered the home and searched while the four police officers remained outside.

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SFWeekly suggests that there are some questions now why this incident was not recorded as per standard procedure. San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now says "Apple came to us saying that they were looking for a lost item, and some plainclothes officers responded out to the house with them. My understanding is that they stood outside. They just assisted Apple to the address."

The previous report had suggested that Apple investigators may have impersonated the police which is a criminal offense. It seems now that this was not the case.

An Apple employee reportedly lost this iPhone prototype in a restaurant/bar in late July. It seems, so far, that CNet's original account of the tale was accurate.

Article Link: San Francisco Police Did Assist Apple in House Search of iPhone 5

 

[darknite38]

Why is Cava 22 pictured in this article? How is it relevant? Stop advertising for them.

 

[Bigdaddyguido]

Wirelessly posted (Iphone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

What a mess. At least the BS about impersonating police has been cleared up.

 

[kolax]

Why wasn't it recorded? Because the police officers wanted some free Mexican food.

 

[*LTD*]

Aaaannnnd we're done.

Next.

 

[BigPrince]

Disappointing reporting all the way around....including Macrumors.

 

[Nebrie]

Anyone miss the days when preforming journalism required taking a reaching wand and ever so slightly dislodging ones ass from ones chair?


(also putting down the donut)

 

[accessoriesguy]

I don't care anymore! :'(

if we waited a day, none of this mess would have happened hmm..

 

[rsshelas]

Going to Cava22 right now...hoping to find iphone 6 someday

 

[ECUpirate44]

Macrumors, when you get the facts straight and all of the correct information, just write one big long story and tell us what happened.

 

[al256]

Really? Only the police can be suspicious when stories get changed??? I still think something is up.

So is it three or is it four officers? Why is it so hard for the police to get their facts straight? Joe Friday only wanted the facts. So do I.

 

[winston1236]

apple is expanding the product line to include ipolice

 

[AppleScruff1]

Macrumors, when you get the facts straight and all of the correct information, just write one big long story and tell us what happened.

Then it wouldn't be MacRumors. It would be MacFacts.

 

[*LTD*]

Disappointing reporting all the way around....including Macrumors.

Bad reporting isn't really the problem.

The problem is that people around here actually bought into the notion (and did it so damn easily) that Apple and the cops were somehow involved in some shady conspiracy-type business.

Priceless.

 

[weespeed]

Aaaannnnd we're done.

Next.

How is it done?
What about Mr. Sergio Calderón??
You guys make it like he has no rights and anyone can come in and search is house if they come with four SFPD officers.

This is going to end one way, Mr. Sergio Calderón is going to get alot of money from Apple and SFPD.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Bad reporting isn't really the problem

The problem is that people actually bought into the notion that Apple and the cops were involved in some shady conspiracy-type business.

Priceless.

And also the problem is that even if Apple was involved with shady business, people would defend them at all costs. Not normal at all.

 

[miamialley]

Fact checking is nonexistent these days. <Apple posed as police?> A rumor is one thing, but geez.

 

[ucantgetridofme]

Aaaannnnd we're done.

Next.

That what your mom says. This story is far from over. Why didn't the police say they were involved in the first place? It sounds like they're covering up for Apple. Apple should be ashamed of themselves searching and threatening people over a stupid toy they keep losing.

 

[ridley182]

Oh noes now how are we supposed to hate on Apple now!?!?

C'mon guys quick! Let's think of of a way to spin this news and continue bashing Apple, we need to keep the idiocy going!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[.Andy]

Presumably the san francisco police will do this for everyone that loses a phone.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Fact checking is nonexistent these days. <Apple posed as police?> A rumor is one thing, but geez.

The police were wrong and the source of the original story was wrong. Apple did no wrong here. The SFPD did.

 

[Popeye206]

Why wasn't it recorded? Because the police officers wanted some free Mexican food.

Nah... they just wanted to see the iPhone 5! LOL!

I'm guessing since the lead security guy was an X-cop, he may have asked some undercover past associates to join them to make sure it was kept "above board" in case there was an incident... not sure????

 

[*LTD*]

And also the problem is that even if Apple was involved with shady business, people would defend them at all costs. Not normal at all.

No one did so, nor do I recall ever having done so. Because Apple hasn't actually been convicted of any such thing, at least in recent memory.

So there's nothing that needs to be defended in the first place.

Presumably the san francisco police will do this for everyone that loses a phone.

If your phone was actually a corporate prototype worth billions of dollars, then maybe.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Nah... they just wanted to see the iPhone 5! LOL!

I'm guessing since the lead security guy was an X-cop, he may have asked some undercover past associates to join them to make sure it was kept "above board" in case there was an incident... not sure????

That sounds like a plausible idea.

 

[StealthGhost]

Why is Apple searching someone's home?