The Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division is investigating a multi-million dollar heist. Detectives need the public’s help in identifying and locating one of the suspects who was caught on the surveillance camera stealing iPods.
On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, the suspect entered a freight forwarding business located in the 11000 block of La Cienega Boulevard in Pacific Area. The suspect used fraudulent means to take delivery of over 12,000 iPod MP3 players. The value of the stolen cargo exceeds $2.6 million. Detectives from the Cargo Hijack Unit are working on several leads in the case.
High quality surveillance photograph of one of the suspects can be e-mailed by contacting Media Relations Section at 213-485-3586.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detectives Zavala, Nee or Jaime at 213-847-3786. On weekends and during off-hours, call the 24-hour toll free number at the Detective Information Desk at 1-877-LAWFULL (1-877-529-3855).
Image of the suspect from surveillance camera here.
Dudes,
That’s Mr. T! Tsk, tsk, now he’s stealing iPods – how much farther can he fall?
You gotta tuck those into the boxes, or this is what’s gonna happen, people.
Let’s hope the law enforcement {system} catches these guys ASAP.
That sucks. Watch the value climb on eBay for a while. That shot looks like a screen from GTA!
I pity the fool trying to pin this one on me.
Woah! Check your local street vendors for cheap ipods
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I’m pretty sure that it’s Mike Tyson.
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I don’t actually have an iPod yet, but do iPods have the serial numbers imprinted on them. if so, do you think apple would set up a page on their site to enter in the serial number to make sure it’s not from the batch of stolen players?
Psstt… need a cheap iPod? $100 bucks. I pity the fool, who doesn’t take advantage of this steal!!!
Someone email them for the “High-quality” picture and post it online. Right now it actually does look like something from a video game.
Oh, and don’t tick off Mike Tyson…
He’ll bite your ear off.
Hey at least it’s just crime. It’s kinda bad-ass. It’s not as low as appearing on Love Boat.
How much longer before every street corner in L.A. has a van selling iPods in the wee hours?
See ad below : Get a FREE iPod !
Yes they do have serial numbers.
That’s not a bad idea.
They could upgrade you to a 60 gb photo (or even flat out give you an iMac or something) if you gave info leading to the arrest.
Well there you have it.
ipods are so popular, people are stealing them.
Hows that for the dell dj, iriver etc>?
>LAPD calls for public’s help identifying thief of over 12,000 Apple iPods valued over $2.6 million>
Who writes these headlines? Oh, I know a Cal. graduate. Thief–my eye. SB. theft. Come on you learned people…NOT.
MW written. as in badly.
Mo-ron,
You don’t identify a picture of the “theft,” you mongoloid, you identify a picture of the thief.
Personally, I think he should be arrested for wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area – but in La-La land that’s probably not considered grounds for even a caution.
They have changed the headline you prick. You’re late to the game so zip it, you thing you. Read the headline as it was here…
>LAPD calls for public’s help identifying thief of over 12,000 Apple iPods valued over $2.6 million>
the guilty party has revised it to read,
LAPD ask public to help identify thief who stole over 12,000 Apple iPods valued over $2.6 million.
So scholar you are wrong, OK?
MW develop, as in scholar, you need to.
MCCFR
You make ma laff
It’s Bill Gates a la Scooby Doo.
Jinkies!
Well…. to extend Microsoft logic for piracy enforcement in Asia to this situation for Apple …
If people are getting stolen iPods, they aren’t buying something else instead.
Then there is that whole iTMS tie-in to the iPod…
It could be worse…
You know what would be cooler, if not creepier? Imagine Apple being able to track down each iPod by issuing a new iPod Firmware Update that allows it to report back the serial and IP address back to Apple’s DB. Then they send the swat team to your house to track you down like the dog that you are!
Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do when they come for YOU?!
If that turns out to be the case, I’m glad I’ve already GOT an iPod!
scouring eBay as I type this
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The police will never track down those ipods. The thief clearly wanted them for himself, to load up his immense collection of phillip glass operas and historic library of congress recordings. From the look on his face, he plans on dedicating one ipod to uncompressed copies of every available performance of wagner’s ring cycle.
That guy in the photo looks like stantheman.
Lock him up and deny all internet access.
Mmmm … that comes to a retail value of $217.00 each.
They’re probably insured…
I’m sure that that freight company is getting a hefty reaming…
“$217”
You get wholesale pricing when you steal that many.
In other news, thieves broke into Dell’s main supply warehouse and stole 500,000 Dell DJ’s.
The following night they broke in again to put them back!
Bill Gates said he would never BUY an iPod… hmmmm…. I guess he really wanted one!
Coming to a Flea Market near you…
I was envious of the guy down the street because he had 4 iPods. Now there is someone out there that has 12,000 of them.
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Keeping up with the Jones’ is getting expensive.
Check out the Apple online store.
Recovered iPods, half price, preloaded with 128 kbps rap tune MP3’s.
All it takes is one person to get one of these stolen iPods, register it, and Apple will contact them to find out where they purchased it. Then the ball will be rolling on catching the jackass who stole them.
These deals are always an inside job.
“All it takes is one person to get one of these stolen iPods, register it, and Apple will contact them to find out where they purchased it. Then the ball will be rolling on catching the jackass who stole them.”
Nowdays, people find software cracks to get around things like that. I’m sure someone has developed a program that does not require you to enter a serial number of the iPod being used.
Just watch, this guy will hit the illegal music sites like mad trying to load up the iPods.
He’s probably trying to get into Guiness for the largest music collection.
“On these 50 iPods I have every classic rock song, and on these 123 I’ve stored all the classical music ever recorded. Next we have…”
Hey, what’s with the tame reactions?
C’mon, this has to be part of a bigger thing!
Bill hired this thug to prevent the iPods being sold.
Or Steve hired him to get the iPod name in the media.
Who is paying this LAPD Media Dept anyway? Isn’t it very suspicious that you can only get the hi-res pic on demand? What are they covering up? And why would MDN report on an ordinary theft, eh?
Get your brains into gear, people. This is no ordinary theft… Find the truth, {show} some creativity
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It was the commies.