Seattle, WA
Seattle-area Apple Store robbed of 436 iPhones in brazen act
Burglars in a Seattle suburb reportedly managed a brazen heist final Sunday, tunneling by the toilet wall of a espresso equipment store earlier than sneaking right into a neighboring Apple Retailer and making off with about $500,000 of merchandise.
The theft included 436 iPhones, in keeping with the Lynnwood Police Division, which announced Wednesday that no arrest had been made. There have been no updates as of Friday afternoon, a division spokesperson instructed SFGATE.
Police are nonetheless investigating and declined to show over surveillance tape to native shops. The housebreaking occurred at a mall Apple Retailer, a modern, open house with a wood-paneled ceiling and a big, glassy entrance.
The purpose of entry seems to have been the Seattle Espresso Gear subsequent door. The store’s regional supervisor, Eric Marks, instructed KOMO Information that his entrance door had been pried open, then the burglars had seemingly opened up the shops’ shared wall, making a “24 by 18 [inch] gap lower within the wall” right into a backroom of Apple’s retail store.
“I’m stunned we have been the conduit for them to get to the Apple retailer,” Marks stated. “I had no clue we have been so shut or adjoining to them.”
The outlet, lower by layers of wall in a rectangle simply sufficiently big for an grownup to crawl by, is true between the bathroom and sink in Marks’ retailer toilet. The espresso equipment store has now changed its locks, KOMO reported. Native police instructed the outlet that no fingerprints have been left behind.
Apple, primarily based in Cupertino, California, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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