Man Dressed as an Apple employee managed to steal 19 iPhones from NYC Apple stores which are worth $16000. The police are still investigating the incident and Apple has not yet issued any official statement on the incident.
Thieves Dressed as Apple Employees steal iPhones worth $16,130
Many times we have seen in movies, where ordinary people dress up like a professional, wandering here and there in VIP Stores and what they end up doing like shoplifting. Something similar type of occurrence happened in Manhattan last week.
Apple may have to rethink to replace their blue uniform after thieves robbed an Apple store in daylight which is located in New York city SoHo location. According to the sources, the thieves who were dressed like an Apple Store employee managed to steal 19 iPhones.
Police said that “The thieves dressed similarly to store employees — who usually wear blue T-shirts imprinted with an Apple logo — and walked right into an electronics repair room”
The New York Police Department also mentioned that “The thieves grabbed the iPhones from a drawer which is in the repair room, then passed them to another partner in crime. Then they hid the iPhones under his shirt and they walked out of the store”
According to the Police, the thieves managed to steal 19 iPhones that areworth $16,130 which is a huge loss. Police are still investigating the incident, Apple has not yet issued any official statement on the incident.
This is not the first time, something like this has happened. In February, women who accurately dressed like an Apple employee took away 8 iPhones from an Apple store. However, what actually encourage this type of incidence was Uniform of Apple employees.
The Tech giant Apple employs almost 100 people on average per store, so it becomes a very troublesome task to find out the robbers in between the employees especially if the criminals are dressed just like an Apple’s employee.
A man in New York City under the guise of an Apple employee walked into the company’s New York City SoHo location and made off with more than $16,000 worth of Apple iPhones on 1st June. A total of 19 iPhones were stolen from the store located in SoHo.
The suspect was dressed as an Apple employee with a blue shirt and the similar Apple logo on the front. Unsuspected of being a stranger amongst the employees, the thief took the phones right out of a drawer in the store’s repair room. He then passed all the 19 iPhones to his accomplice who reportedly hid the phones under his shirt, and the pair walked out of the store.
The store location on the Upper West Side was known as a training location for workers so new faces wouldn’t raise questions. As Gizmodo notes, Apple’s new uniforms might be to blame. The company used to make its store personnel wear themed shirts for every new product launch or for every season.
While police are still investigating the incident, Apple did not immediately return request for comment.
This is not the first time that such an incident has occurred. According to the New York Post reports, it started in February when a woman dressed like an Apple employee took 8 iPhones from an Apple Store on the Upper West Side. A male partner diverted the store’s actual employees while another acted as a lookout. The same store was hit again in March. This time a man dressed as an employee took 59 iPhones out of a drawer at the Genius Bar and had a female partner transfer them to a duffel bag in the bathroom, while a male assistant acted as a lookout. The total value of the iPhones stolen in both thefts was $49,300.
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