“Not even the home of Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs has escaped a Bay Area-wide upswing in residential burglaries,” Jason Green reports for The Mercury News. “The deceased Apple co-founder’s home on Waverley Street in Palo Alto was burglarized July 17, said Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Tom Flattery, a member of the high-technology crimes unit. More than $60,000 worth of ‘computers and personal items’ were allegedly stolen, but Flattery declined to say whether they belonged to Jobs, who died last year at the age of 56, or another family member.”
Green reports, “On Aug. 2, authorities arrested Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda in connection with the crime, Flattery said. He was arraigned five days later on one count of residential burglary and selling stolen property. McFarlin, who remains in county jail on $500,000 bail, could face a maximum prison sentence of seven years and eight months, including a one-year enhancement for ‘excessive taking of property,’ Flattery said. He is slated to return to court Aug. 20 to enter a plea.”
“The residence was surrounded by a temporary construction barrier in July. Exterior stucco and trim are being replaced at the home, according to building permits filed with the city,” Green reports. “The work, which also includes two new electrical panels, is expected to cost more than $31,000.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan King” for the heads up.]
Kariem McFarlin.
A black from Brooklyn now in jail in bankrupt Cali. Big surprise.
https://www.facebook.com/kariem.mcfarlin
Do not randomly post links to social media or people with similar names. Unless you are 100% certain it’s the same guy. Remember the Colorado shooter and the bias media almost immediately trying to link him to the Tea Party only to find out it was a different guy?
Thanks. Detective is a real douche bag.
How many 35-year-old “Kariem McFarlins” do you think live in Alameda, CA?
I’ll tell you how many: 1.
iDetect something in U 🙂 Troublemaker!
… The one in class that we all know who to stay away!!! Classless with no taste!
iBuy AAPL = $1055 in 2015
Kariem is black? Noooo.
I’m sure it was one of those Occupy IDIOTS!
wow thanks for pointing out his race “Detective”
I bet you are a peach.
Let’s face it, from his name and the below info, we pretty much knew he was black anyway:
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics non-Hispanic blacks accounted for nearly 40% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.
According to the 2010 census of the US Census Bureau blacks (including Hispanic blacks) comprised 13.6% of the US population.
I had not thought about his race when reading the article.
If you live in the U.S., how many white “Kariems” do you know?
I don’t know anyone named Kariem
I also don’t know why the f*ck it matters what race the perp was?
isn’t McFarlin a scottish or irish name?
Wha? Are you saying he couldn’t be black because he’s Scottish?
According to the statistic you provided, there was a 60% chance he wasn’t black and a 40% chance that he was.
Also concerning the name, the first name is Arabic and the surname is Scottish/Irish, but in particular, not a name associated with slave ownership, which is where most African Americans received their surnames. In other words, someone with his name is *most likely* to be recently mixed race, and not black.
Bigot.
It has nothing to do with bigotry. There is a disproportionate amount of crime committed by minorities, sadly.
No, a disproportionate number of minorities are jailed in America for minor crimes to become slave labor in the prison system. Obviously the true criminals stealing billions and trillions and get away with it have better lawyers and are white.
Another delusional liberal, minority apologist. All of those black guys in prison are good boys; just ask their mamas.
In addition to what HUYA wrote, it’s worth noting that correlation != causation.
Take a look at the African American population in prison compared to those out of prison and you’ll see a much more relevant correlation that spans across all races in prison, that is to note that social-economic factors are much more relevant, which also happen to correlate to race in America.
No study has ever shown that African Americans are *inherently* more likely to be criminals.
What do you want us to do next? Go to this guys house and lynch him based on what we read about a police investigation from an Apple fan website? Sorry, jackass, but in free societies, people are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Now it’s time you get out, and take your out-of-date “justice” with you.
Update: He has confessed.
He confessed after being tracked down by a GPS inside one of the stolen devises. A mob of vigilantes going to his house and harassing him would not have helped (it might have lead to a quicker confession, but a confession under those conditions would be meaningless).
Black?! What an idiot dont say stuff on here that is racial!!!
Additional punishment should have included a mandatory LIFETIME ban on purchase and ownership of any and all Apple-branded products of any kind.
(Yes, everything from an Mac SE/30, to a (hypothetical) iPhone9…)
Ah…………yeah,sure.
Samsung spy
Blame Obama.
The U.S.’s first half-black president has been an absolute disaster for U.S. blacks:
Under Obama, the unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income, and median family wealth are all worse for the black community. In June, while the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2%, the unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up, from 13.6% to 14.4%.
And, yet, 95% of U.S. blacks who vote will vote for more of the same. Thank you, sir, may I have another!
Wake up, my black brothers and sisters! Government isn’t the answer, it’s the problem. Obama’s vision is modern day SLAVERY for U.S. blacks and minorities. That gov’t check = chains.
First, I doubt that you are black. More likely a white republican working for the RNC. If you are going to post here, you need more than party slogans. Try some real, non-opinionated facts.
Actually, just leave the politics out, if you please.
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Real, non-opinionated facts:
Under Obama, the unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income, and median family wealth are all worse for the black community. In June, while the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2%, the unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up, from 13.6% to 14.4%.
Prove me wrong (you cannot) or STFU.
Wake up, my black brothers and sisters! Government isn’t the answer, it’s the problem. Obama’s vision is modern day SLAVERY for U.S. blacks and minorities. That gov’t check = chains.
The U.S.’s first half-black president has been an absolute disaster for U.S. blacks:
Yeah, and the Bush League were equal-opportunity rapists of all things good in the USA.
Do we REALLY have to turn every article here into an opportunity to show off PolyTardiness? Does anyone sane here REALLY think they’re going to change the minds of the severely closed-minded loons? Not gonna happen.
IOW: All the kill-or-be-killed PoliTard contention here is merely wasted bandwidth. Have fun with that. HURL!
:-Q*******
According to black and other left-leaning mainstream media, the 9% average unemployment rate for African-Americans under G.W. Bush was “alarmingly high.”
Today, with black unemployment at 14.1%?
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)
Not a fucking peep.
How’s it feel to be losing in spite of an obscenely stacked deck, Libs?
(http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll/)
The Neo-Con-Job Failure
How does it feel USA to be
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES?
Cue the music:
Shot By Both Sides by Magazine, featuring Howard Devo, punk literary god
It’s time to overthrow the 1-Dimensional fools and establish the next level of REVOLUTION…
heehee! 😉
Neo-Nazi America comes out in droves to condemn the brown people they wish to keep down to use as slaves. Bite us, the rest of the world, your sad racist empire is imploding before your eyes and not one thing you and your sociopath mob of fascist idiots can do about it. Please vanish in the septic tank of history as fast as possible you have done enough damage to the world.
‘Scuse? Even History 101 students know that the Left murdered 20 million in the socialist heaven of Russia and 40 million in communist China.
Sorry, but not even in the most fevered lieberal hypocrat dreams does an imagined Neo-Nazi (and that’s “National Socialist, natch) conspiracy match the things the Leftists have actually DONE.
Well then you must have failed 101 history for if you beleive for one minute that the western empire doesn’t taint their version of history with their own propaganda the you are indeed a fool. No one can deny the crimes of totalitarianism whether black, German, red, Russian, or blue, American but one must remember that if one attributes the blood of the innocents in the American empires sphere of controle, i.e. all of south America, American Asia, well then you can put those numbers of the .01% oligachy against any despot communist totalitarian regeme can muster, actual or made up. The point is that as the Scandinavians demonstrate when not meddled with by the neo-liberal thieves and fascist enablers, democratic socialism is shown over and over again to be the best system to live in. Not that dog eat dog dystopia you force on the rest of the world by undue influence peddling and military might. Be gone with you Pax Americanus, be gone with you.
Miserable prick. Give him life imprisonment with only a computer running VISTA to work with.
Didn’t take long for some asshole to figure a way to pin this on Obama.
Stupid jerk-off
Under Obama, the unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income, and median family wealth are all worse for the black community.
In June, while the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2%, the unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up, from 13.6% to 14.4%.
Yes facts are stubborn things. Especially since republican controlled house refuses to pass jobs and infastructure related bills but tried to kill healthcare 33 times.
If Congress were more focused on getting jobs moving rather than beating down the common man to pay rich people, maybe unemployment would be way down.
Just a though.
Now can we get back to bashing electronics related items.???
Did you know that most liberals simply read the name of the bill and make their judgement based solely on that piece of “information?” It’s true.
“The Affordable Care Act.” That’s good enough for them!
Thank God the Republicans control the House and could kill Obama’s hideous “American Jobs Act” nightmare:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/94346/
Problem is that “The Obama Failure” and “Facts are stubborn things” are the same individual.
Now that all the talking points are made and we see how this subject went to the far extreme right…. It’s all over now.
Pft…
Again how is this Obama’s fault. Wake up a little and see that the world in in rough economic shape with high unemployment everywhere.
if you do not understand the influence of something as simple as demographics, then STFU. It just makes you look all the more stupid.
The world is in trouble because of ideas like those held by Obama.
Wake up, indeed.
In Wisconsin, Republican Scott Walker, using the type of common sense GOP ideas espoused by Romney-Ryan, has driven the state unemployment rate from 7.7 percent to 6.8 percent (well below the national average) and created 23,000 jobs last year.
The Wisconsin economy is growing.
The Wisconsin economy is growing because of GOP ideas that put people in control and gets government out of their way.
Romney-Ryan is the team that can restore greatness in America. Romney-Ryan is the team that can fix America.
Bush and his Mussolini style fascists paved the way for the economic disaster A’merd’ica is in. Right to Work was first known as ARBEIT MACHT FREI look that up Reinhardt. With the totalitarian Repugnican Party the u.s. is going down the Chinese made toilet and bringing the rest of the world with it. Wake up free thinking people and get rid of those chains imposed by the filthy rich .01%. Let the guillotines sing again.
Also note that it is not from a registered user. Nothing like bullshit spewing from a troll too scared to own up to their own racist nonsense.
The bulk of the right wing trolling is from unregistered users. They are really afraid al-Qaeda will find out the address of mom’s basement from whence the neo-con freedom fighter/job creator/ditto head resides.
Thats what I love about Internet forum. … Bigots like detective, because they feel safe in anonymity, can really let their true feelings show… And there are so many of them out there…
If I here one more white person tell me how America has “changed” I am going to puke… There now I have expressed my true feelings… Got to love the Internet … :=)
Blacks. 10% of the U.S. general population. 40% of the U.S. prison population.
Blame it all on bigoted juries and judges if it makes you feel better (even though your credibility will disappear), but U.S. blacks are significantly more likely to be criminals than, say, whites. The statistics prove it. Period.
And they aren’t real great at improving property values either.
I’d like to think douchebaggery transcends race, religion and gender. Matter of fact, I know it does.
How’d he get caught? Did he post an ad on CL advertising multiple Lisa’s, TAM’s and Apple I’s for sale?
‘How’d he get caught? Did he post an ad on CL advertising multiple Lisa’s, TAM’s and Apple I’s for sale?’
No. he was wearing running shoes with lights in the heels and the poe-lees were able to track him in the dark.
Regardless of race or sexual preference, hang the MF.
Probably M$ or Google, they’ve done it before.
“including a one-year enhancement for ‘excessive taking of property,’”
I never heard of this before.
Are you only allowed to steal enough to fuel your drug habit for a week or two, without being penalized? The courts must be run by the telcos 🙂
Yes! The ‘excessive taking of property’ sounds like some odd hyper-socialist concept, as in: Everyone shares everything, except you can’t hoard stuff just for yourself. (0_o)
Burglarized? You Yanks love making up words.
Shakespeare did it all the time.
fair enough
It’s not made up. We speak American English- not that of the Queen/King/Monarch of the Moment.
2 peoples separated by a common language.
Example
‘I bought some fags from a guy on a lorry.’ has a very different meaning over in these United States.
No it doesn’t. You both suck on fags.
Boy, he sure walked into that one. What a maroon.
The word is in MY dictionary.
This reaks of google or Samsung paying someone to steal Steve jobs macs in the vague hope of getting information of the hard drives to did out what apple was working on before he died.
I wouldn’t at all be surprised considering googles and samsungs murky record for stealing apples IP.
Coward libs will let him off the hook. They are gutless, don’t want to really punish anyone.
I’d *so* love to punish *you*. Would really make my day brighter.
Coward libs? Your maturity level and understanding of grammar are showing.
Samsung’s at it again!
So, is the construction on the house a result of damage done during the burglary or how the thief gained entry?
After I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new feedback are added- checkbox and now