“Two men employed to sell iPhones at the Apple Computer Store in the Mall at Rockingham Park [Salem, New Hampshire] went into business for themselves, stealing 332 of them before being caught by their bosses, police said,” James A. Kimble reports for The Eagle-Tribune.
“Police yesterday arrested Joshua Garrand, 28, of Methuen, Mass., and Christopher Nashed, 22, of Sandown on felony theft charges of stealing $132,468 worth of the popular computer phone and reselling them on the black market, police said,” Kimble reports.
“Garrand and Nashed were taken into custody at their homes yesterday afternoon without incident,” Kimble reports.
“Investigators were first contacted by the store in early January. Salem police Sgt. Steve Malisos dug through store records and spent three months on the case,” Kimble reports.
“Deputy police Chief William Ganley said the department has dealt with a lot of employee thefts over the years, but nothing comparable to the iPhone case,” Kimble reports.
Full article here.
Give em the chair.
Throw the book at them! Make them use Zunes! Stupid F*cktards.
Leniency please! Their childhood was wrought with the unhappiness of not owning, touching, tasting a cell phone. Their ability to discern right from wrong has been warped from such dour conditions. Mr Jobs..please!!
Sentence them to Windows 3.1 on a x286.
FItz your’re funny LOL (make them use Zunes) Lol
Sounds like two bad apples to me.
Peace.
The iPhone: it even increases your robbin’ and thievin’ productivity.
“With my new iPhone I can fence stolen merchandise on eBay before security even sees me leaving the lot.”
Now we’re finally getting to the truth about why there’s a gap between Apple’s and ATT iPhone sales.
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Hell of a profit sharing plan
wow, Apple usually tries to sweep this sort of thing under the rug. i watched someone get fired for stealing ~$60k worth of shit and all that person had to do was recover the merch and pay for what wasn’t returned. i also saw someone get canned for a nifty little credit card scam she had going on and again, all apple had her do was pay them back… obviously fired as well.
so to actually have apple press charges and let this into the news is kind of a big deal… i guess maybe the difference here is it creates positive press for the iPhone? “look at how popular our awesome phone is, employees are stealing them by the crate load!!!”
nobody will ever know what apple’s motives are… they’re a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
It could be worse. They could have been selling advertising on the internet. Talk about a scam.
The thing that strikes me as ODD, is that they stole 332 iPhones from the same store! That’s a lot of phones vanishing into thin air. Now, wouldn’t you think after, say 10 phones went missing ( of the red hot iPhone ) you’d want to put a huge lock down of them, and keep very close inventory count on these?!
Seems like Apple cooperate kept on just shipping them phones, and these guys kept on pocketing them without a second thought.
No-one ever steals Zunes.
“nobody will ever know what apple’s motives are… they’re a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
You forgot soft, gooey, Caramel … the kind that makes you go – MMmmm.
(now we know why iPhones are so hard to find at Apple Stores in New York these days!)
I had to fire someone once for stealing a pack of Gummy Bears…
Personally I think it may be a PR stunt… As NeverFade said… I think they would have caught on LONG before it got to 332… and even if it started in January when they said the “investigators” where informed… I doubt it would have taken the “investigators” that long to figure out who was walking out of the store with that many iPhones.
What idiots. Did they seriously think they would just be able to continue doing this forever?
And Zach, an investigation of this type, in order to lock it up nice and tight, probably needed the 3 months. Trust me, there’s going to be no way out for these two. Their defense lawyers are going to likely see the evidence and resign… or say, “It’s their first offense, so please be lenient, I mean come on, your honor….”
I have to say it again. Idiots!
Would anyone ever think that stealing a ZUNE might be worth jail time?
(Besides, pretty hard to fence them; who the hell would buy a ZUNE? They can’t even sell them on the open market, much less the black market or ANY MARKET!!!)
Boo Yah!
Dick Smiths in NZ is now selling Apple as I said they should have a long time a go.
I think this will help grow the market share here.
Also not like they usually do, showed me all the good features about the ipod touch.
I am still hoping for a Mac OS X for PC, and I am hoping to make some software for the iphone soon, if anyone wants to help.
OK, thanks
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@Fitz “Throw the book at them! Make them use Zunes!” you should have said:
Throw the iBook at them! Make them sell Zunes!
Now that would be REAL punishment…
I can hear it now. The weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth, as the judge passes sentence…….
I hereby sentence you to 10 years hard labour….
…. In a Windows Mobile Phone Support Centre without possibility of parole.
“…on felony theft charges of stealing $132,468 worth of the popular computer phone and reselling them on the black market…”
I like that this story finally gives the iPhone a moniker that fits — “Computer Phone”. I always thought my iPhone was much more than a “smart” phone.
But do the 332 count towards the 10 million??
::Insert “expert” panic about missing the 10 million goal by 332 iPhones here::
@ron
exactly no one would want to steal a zune
they should be forced to pay all of it back and give back whatever amount they have left. haha I agree making them work with windows mobile would be a rather good punishment to add on to the sentence. Put them on windows 95 too while your at it.
@Brau
Are you suggesting iPhones have rich, caramel centers?
Mmmmmmmm… caramel
Now they will be using CELL phones, get it?