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App leads police to stolen iPad in Adelaide

ONE woman has found out the hard way not to have someone else's iPad, with its technology leading police right to her doorstep.
The Apple device was stolen from a house in Ferris St, Christies Beach, which was broken into between November 29 and December 1.
Yesterday, using its "Find my iPhone app", the owner tracked the iPad to a house in Signet St, Hallett Cove.
She alerted police, who sent a patrol to the house where officers found a quantity of stolen property, including the iPad, worth $2250.
They arrested a woman, 34, and charged her with serious criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and unlawful possession.
She was bailed to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court next year.
Police have asked anyone who has been broken into in the Christies Beach area to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 as they are trying to track the owners of the stolen property.

Thief jailed for snatching iPhone from park woman

A THIEF who stole an iPhone from a woman on a park bench has been jailed for four months.

Aaran Ryan (23) was using cocaine and was under severe pressure to pay a drug debt when he snatched the mobile.

The father-of-two, from Summerhill Place, Dublin 1, admitted stealing the iPhone 5 in August and damaging it by trying to throw it in a river.
At Dublin District Court, judge Grainne Malone said his crime was one "particularly targeted against women".
FLED
Giving evidence, garda Sheng Ke said that Ryan took the phone from the victim as she sat on a bench in Fairview Park in the late afternoon.
The defendant fled in the direction of Ballybough, but was spotted running down the road by garda Ke, who ordered him to stop.
After Ryan failed to do so, the officer gave chase and saw the defendant throw the phone towards a river, only for it to hit the railings and bounce back.
The court was told that Ryan has 62 previous convictions for offences including burglary. However, he had only committed one crime as an adult and that was a public order offence.
Questioned by barrister Brian Storan, officer Ke agreed that no violence was used in the theft, and that the defendant and victim did not exchange words on the day in question.
Ryan had contested the charges before changing his plea to guilty for the hearing, which was attended by the victim and two witnesses.
The thief asked for time to pay compensation for the €100 of damage to the phone. Mr Storan also said his client was under pressure at the time of the crime due to drug debts.
He added that Ryan was looking after his children while his girlfriend was in full-time education.
Judge Malone said the victim had not had to give evidence, but she also took into account the lateness of Ryan's plea.
"The taking of mobile phones in this city seems to be particularly an offence targeted against women", she added.
CHALLENGE
"Whether that is because the perpetrators think that women would be less likely to go after them and challenge them I don't know.

"For somebody to have a mobile phone and feel too afraid to take it out of their pocket is, to put it mildly, a serious inconvenience.

"What is the point of having a phone if you are too afraid to take it out and use it because somebody like Mr Ryan will come and snatch it out of your hand?"

Thief copies out 11 pages of contacts after stealing man's iPhone in China taxi

A CHINESE thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner, state media says.
The pickpocket is believed to have taken the Apple handset from Zou Bin when they shared a taxi, the Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
Mr Zou had nearly 1000 contact numbers in the device and with no backup copy - like millions of other people around the world - he was more concerned about losing the data than the phone itself, it added.
"I know you are the man who sat beside me. I can assure you that I will find you," he said in a text message to the thief.
"Look through the contact numbers in my mobile and you will know what trade I am in," he added. "Send me back the phone to the address below if you are sensible."
The tone of the message was unmistakably threatening - Mr Zou works in the pub industry, which in China is widely held to have links with gangs.
Days later he received a parcel containing his SIM card and 11 pages of carefully handwritten contact numbers, Xinhua said, adding he was "fossilised" by the result - a Chinese colloquialism for astonished.
It would take a while to write from one to one thousand, let alone names and a whole string of digits. I suppose (the thief's) hand is swelling," Mr Zou was quoted as saying.
The theft earlier this month is believed to have happened somewhere between Yiyang and Changsha in the central province of Hunan.
Chinese internet users gave the thief plaudits for his efforts, dubbing him "the conscience of the (theft) industry".
One user of Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, posted: "What a sympathetic and faithful thief, one who values professional ethics."

 

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Boy, 16, 'killed his mother with his friend's help' after she confiscated his cell phone

A 16-year-old boy is facing first degree murder charges after his mom’s body was found at the family’s home in the early hours of Saturday.
The body of Tina Helms Spencer, 36, was found murdered in the backyard shed at the property in Mesa, Arizona.
Her son, Mike Helms, has been booked into juvenile detention on charges including first-degree murder, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.

A 17-year-old friend of the son was booked into juvenile detention on charges of first-degree murder as an accomplice, evidence tampering and concealment of a body.
Police say the 16-year-old had been grounded and had his phone taken away.

After his mom returned home from work, they allegedly had a heated argument over the phone and he decided to kill her.
Cops were alerted after receiving a phone call from the son’s stepfather. He also had been attacked by the boy after returning home from work but had managed to escape after a short struggle.

When police arrived, a vehicle was missing from the home and there were signs of a struggle.
During the investigation, police ended up speaking with a 17-year-old friend of the son at his nearby home, when the 16-year-old arrived, he was immediately taken into custody.
Authorities expect a hearing will be held to determine if the juveniles will be charged as adults.
A hammer and a frying pan were found at the scene, which police believe were involved in the incident.
Police say the 16-year-old asked his friend to act as a lookout so he could attack her when she came home. 

Both boys allegedly moved Spencer to the shed, attempted to clean up the scene and then the 17-year-old left.
Afterward, police say the 16-year-old decided to also kill his stepfather, but they don't believe the 17-year-old was part of that plan.
A school friend of Helms described him as a friendly kid, a junior ROTC cadet in high school.
'He's a giant teddy. He's tough on the outside. He puts up that front, but when you get to know him, he's a standup guy,' Mike O'Connor told FOX10.

'He didn't really have home issues he talked about. If he did, it was typical stuff. One week he'd have a fight with this parents, the next week he was talking about how his mom was awesome and helping him out with something.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478019/Boy-16-killed-mother-friends-help-confiscated-cell-phone.html#ixzz2iyR0h3v8
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