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‘Find my iPhone’ app helps police nab alleged thief

‘Find my iPhone’ app helps police nab alleged thief

Police used Apple’s “Find my iPhone” function to track down and arrest a Chinese man for allegedly stealing an iPhone X smartphone from a Chinese tourist couple on Friday.

The man, Zhang Aoqi, 31, was arrested at 9.30pm by Pattaya police, who radioed a passenger boat to take the suspect ashore after the Find my iPhone reported that he was located on the boat.
The Chinese couple had filed a complaint reporting their phone stolen to the Pattaya police station.
Police then worked with the couple to use the “find my iPhone” function to the phone at locate the Haad Ta Waen beach on Koh Lan. When the signal was seen leaving the beach, police checked with the passenger boat operator, called the boat to the Pattaya pier and made the arrest.
Zhang denied stealing the phone, and claimed to have found it.
Police said they will further question the couple and the suspect before deciding whether to lay a charge.

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