The Apple store in Palo Alto, California, suffered a brazen attack when a group of thieves in a rented SUV “ram-raided” the store early Sunday morning.
The burglars drove their vehicle at high speed into the 40-foot glass window at the front of the store, then climbed through the hole it had made. They stole iPhones, Macs and other devices before fleeing.
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Fortunately, police were able to apprehend half of the suspects, who were all in their teens. They included 19-year-old Shaquin K. Ferguson, already on parole for weapon violations; 18-year-old Erica Jaynisha White; and two juveniles, aged 16 and 17, whose identities have not been released because of their age.
Police are still searching for between four and six more suspects. There has been no valuation put on the items that were stolen or damaged during the raid.
The Palo Alto Apple store will open Monday as usual.
Apple stores have long suffered from similar “ram-raiding” crimes. These have taken place all over the world, in a phenomenon that is also seen with high-end fashion stores with similarly valuable goods on display. (The giant glass windows probably don’t help!)
Source: The Mercury News
Via: Apple Insider
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “Palo Alto Apple store targeted by ‘ram-raider’ thieves”
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they got caught? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Dumb-$hits.
Why no one ever rams a Microsoft store ?
Luke – maybe you could do an update to this story by including all the other robberies of Apple stores in the Bay Area recently. Apparently the San Francisco, Burlingame and Berkeley stores have been hit 3 times each, and the Los Gatos and Corte Medera stores once each. The robberies are all done by a group of people who run into the store, steal phones, tablets, etc. and run out during business hours. Apparently they are doing some early Christmas shopping for their families. Hopefully Apple has track my phone or some other security measure in place to find the felons. They need something besides cyber-security in these stores.