It was the perfect crime. They stole over a million dollars from an armored truck, they hid it in different parts of the city of Chicago, they managed to evade the police, and when they found themselves with the money in their pocket , everything was ruined by an AirTag .
It is curious how a theft of so much money could be avoided with a 35 euro device. The problem is that when the transport company informed the owner of the money that it had been stolen, he allegedly used an AirTag which I had previously grabbed one of the packages to locate it
This may set a precedent for the prosecution of crimes
AirTags were designed to lose nothing. Now they are one of the great tools of the police to prevent thefts. The truth is that its application is very practical
“They were created for lost and found and Apple hadn’t announced that they could be used to recover stolen items, but the truth is that they are increasingly being used for that. Maybe the owner of this particular branch of the business was recovering in health randomly sticking an AirTag in so many bags or containers, and in this case, it worked.”
Either way, the important thing is that the money was recovered, the perpetrators were caught, and after months of hearing how people were misusing AirTags, good things are also done with them. This could be the first crime avoided by an AirTag, and certainly not the last.
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