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Central Florida man finds stolen trailer with Apple AirTag

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2 years ago

January 9, 2024

Central Florida man finds stolen trailer with Apple AirTag

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida businessman said when his $20,000 trailer was stolen from him last month, he thought it would never be found.

Investigators seemed to not have any leads on who stole it for weeks.

But the man told Channel 9 a $30 device and a ping on his phone led him to crack the case himself.

Mohammad Karbasion says it’s all thanks to an Apple AirTag that he has his trailer back.

Karbasion says he uses the trailer daily for debris when he’s renovating houses. In mid-December, he left his trailer locked on a carport at a job site in Orlando overnight.

Read: Airtags: How to protect yourself from unwanted tracking devices

“On December 12, it was parked. The next day, December 13th, It was gone,” Karbasion said.

He filed a report on his missing $20,000 trailer with Orlando Police Department that same day. For weeks, he says he heard nothing.

He was hopeless.

That was until after he bought a new trailer this month. He was adding trackers to it and found a ping on Find my iPhone.

The AirTag had pinged at an Apopka address days before.

Read: ‘Thrilling turn of events’: Business plants Apple AirTags in merchandise to catch suspected thief

Karbasion decided he would do his own investigation and drove out to Anton Avenue in Apopka where the AirTag pinged.

Low and behold, he found a trailer that looked identical to his.

Orange County Sheriff’s Office went out to the property Sunday but said they couldn’t search the property yet.

“I was shocked because like, it can be gone tomorrow, like I see my $20,000 thing sitting there. You guys don’t do anything? And he said no, you got to get the search warrant,” Karbasion said.

The sheriff’s office said they didn’t have enough probable cause to search for the trailer until Monday afternoon. That’s when deputies found the trailer and several other stolen vehicles on the property.

Read: ‘Extremely unsettling’: Consumer claims portable tracker found in car he just bought

Deputies were able to return one trailer to it’s rightful owner.

“I was so lucky I guess… lucky because I shouldn’t be able to find this trailer to be honest with you,” Karbasion said.

He never thought the AirTag would stay with the trailer. He placed it there as “bait” for thieves if the trailer was ever stolen. That’s because he had another magnetic tracker hidden on the trailer. His logic was that the thieves wouldn’t search for a second tracker if they found one.

But that hidden tracker died and luckily, the thieves never found the AirTag hidden in plain sight.

“I don’t know how they didn’t see it. Nobody saw it,” he said.

The sheriff’s office would not say if anyone was arrested. The agency says it’s still an active and open investigation.

Airtags: How to protect yourself from unwanted tracking devices Airtags the size of a quarter have become the weapon of choice for stalkers. (WFTV)

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Florida takes lead in ICE arrests this year

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7 hours ago

March 22, 2026

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Florida takes lead in ICE arrests this year

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida has become the country’s busiest hub for immigration arrests this year, with ICE agents in the Miami Field Office — which oversees Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — logging more detentions than any other region in the nation according to our news partners at the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

According to figures reported by the New York Times, agents under the Miami office are averaging about 120 arrests a day, totaling nearly 9,900 arrests as of March 10. That pace puts Florida well ahead of other regions experiencing federal “surge” operations, including Minnesota, where a high-profile enforcement push drew national scrutiny after two U.S. citizens were killed.

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From the Archives: Hospital has 70-year history in Southwest Florida

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March 22, 2026

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From the Archives: Hospital has 70-year history in Southwest Florida

The following information comes from a March 3, 2024, article in the Naples Daily News.

Founded in 1953, the first modern medical facility opened on Fourth Street South in March 1956 with the name Naples Community Hospital. The hospital’s first baby was born the next day.

Ten years later, in 1966, the hospital added 50 more beds, an emergency department and several specialized departments. Later that decade, several more departments were added including an intensive care unit.

In 1970, the hospital expanded the original building to six stories and began construction on a new, two-story building next door. This building was later expanded to six stories and was dubbed the “South Tower” while the first tower was called the “North Tower.”

Construction on the Downtown Naples facility continued in the 1980s and on Oct. 15, 1984, The North Collier Health Center opened its doors. This facility was opened as a satellite facility of the main hospital. Shortly after, on Feb. 4, 1985, another satellite facility, which included a helipad, was opened on Marco Island.

In January 1990, North Collier Hospital (the North Naples campus) opened with 50 beds at its location on Immokalee Road in North Naples. The healthcare system, as well as the local population, continued to grow during this decade.

NCH was the only hospital in Collier County until 2001.

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The four-story, 156,000-square-foot center will offer advanced care for families and be housed on the NCH North Hospital campus.

In February 2007, the system expanded once again with the opening of the $64 million Jay & Patty Baker Patient Care Tower at the North Naples hospital.

In 2020, NCH purchased a 186,000 square foot office building on Immokalee Road to relocate some of its administrative support and non-clinical functions which it expects to complete in spring of 2021.

NCH also started a $35 million renovation and expansion of its Baker Hospital emergency room with a two-story, 19,000 square foot addition to expand its emergency room capacity to 47,000 square feet, with expected completion in February 2022.

In 2023, a rebrand changed what NCH stands for, becoming Naples Comprehensive Health.

Information gathered from the Naples Daily News archives, Wikipedia, Collier100.org and Collier County Museum archives.

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Florida Woman, 31, Accused of Peeing on and Damaging More Than $3,000 Worth of Property in Multiple Airbnbs

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March 21, 2026

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Florida Woman, 31, Accused of Peeing on and Damaging More Than ,000 Worth of Property in Multiple Airbnbs

A woman in Florida has been charged with felony criminal mischief after allegedly urinating on property in two different Airbnbs. The woman, Nicolette Keough, 31, was allegedly filming videos of herself urinating and uploading them to an adult film site, according to the Pensacola Police Department (PPD).

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