“The New York Police Department arrested 141 people for allegedly selling stolen iPhones and iPads, stepping up an effort to combat robberies of handheld electronic devices,” Adam Satariano reports for Bloomberg.
“Officers made the arrests at convenience stores, newsstands, barber shops and other businesses, the department said in a statement yesterday. The suspects were charged with criminal possession of stolen property after being apprehended for allegedly purchasing the gadgets from undercover police,” Satariano reports. “‘This was a two-prong approach to apprehend both thieves and receivers of stolen property,’ Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in the statement. ‘Suspects at both ends of the equation are learning the hard way that ‘victims’ and ‘sellers’ may in fact be undercover police officers.'”
Satariano reports, “Of the 141 arrests, 42 were in Brooklyn, 41 in Manhattan, 31 in the Bronx, 21 in Queens and six on Staten Island, the police department said.”
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