A Southern California girl fed up together with her packages getting stolen out of her put up workplace field despatched an Apple AirTag to the deal with and cleverly tracked down the suspected thief, police stated.
The girl had had a number of objects stolen from her mailbox on the Los Alamos Publish Workplace, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Workplace stated Tuesday. If her mail was stolen once more, she hoped the AirTag would assist to trace the thieves down.
On Monday morning, sheriff’s deputies had been known as to the put up workplace for a report of mail theft. After they arrived, the lady advised officers her mail had been stolen once more — together with the bundle with the AirTag.
Legislation enforcement tracked the AirTag to a block in Santa Maria, about 16 miles (26 kilometers) from the put up workplace and arrested two suspects — a 27-year-old from Santa Maria and a 37-year-old from Riverside.
They positioned the bundle with the AirTag among the many sufferer’s mail, in addition to objects believed to have been stolen from greater than a dozen different folks. The girl declined to be recognized, the sheriff’s division stated.
The 2 suspects had been booked in jail on fees of possession of checks with intent to commit fraud, conspiracy, and identification and bank card theft. The 37-year-old was additionally booked on a housebreaking cost and a number of other different theft warrants from Riverside County.
The sheriff’s division counseled the mail theft sufferer for contacting regulation enforcement so they may apprehend the suspects reasonably than trying to contact them on her personal.
