In the latest in a long string of murders over iPods, a 16-year-old in Salt Lake City is now being charged as an adult after the alleged stabbing of a classmate over an Apple device.
Jonatan Bustos is in jail charged with criminal homicide-murder after a tussle with classmate 15-year-old Taylor Pankow over a stolen iPod.
How many years could Bustos get?
Killing for Apple’s must-have device has earned perps a wide range of sentences — from under 10 years to life in prison.
Here are a few examples of how long you can spend locked up over an iCrime:
• Nine years in prison for Michael McMahill-Dearmond, 18, in King County, Washington for stabbing Michael Woolson, 49, to steal his iPod.
• 12 years in prison for 22-year-old Safeolah Fizeeli for the “senseless” stabbing over a missing iPod of 17-year-old Hassan Al-Khazaali in Ottawa, Canada.
• 15 years to life for 22-year-old Shane Beausoleil for aggravated battery in the killing of 20-year-old Ryan Dyer in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
• 22 years behind bars for Darran Samuel, 17, for killing 15-year-old Christopher Rose in a brutal Brooklyn mugging. Steve Jobs was so struck by the murder that he called Rose’s father Earl to express his condolences.
• Life sentence for 19-year-old Shawn McKenzie for the stabbing death of Michael Oatway, 23, on an Ontario, Canada bus over an iPod.
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
