Thieves take off with $50,000 worth of cellphones
by Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Jun 25th 2007 at 12:49PM
The anecdotal evidence for a spike in electronics robberies is piling up, with the latest high profile robbery netting the thieves $50,000 worth of cellphones from a T-Mobile store. Three armed men walked into the store in Fort Bend County in Texas on Thursday, and demanded the "good phones" from the store's safe and the tapes from the CCTV. Staff were tied up, and the thieves deposited the phones into black plastic bags and walked out. Unfortunately for the robbers, T-Mobile keeps a good track of its inventory, and can identify any of the phones if they turn up on the network (meaning that the $50,000 sticker value is much lower on the black market). Crime doesn't pay, especially when your stolen goods can be tracked.[Via textually]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Allen @ Jun 25th 2007 1:08PM
This is nothing new. Somebody in the CT area stole 50,000 worth of cell phones from a T Mobile store that he was working at. It was right around christmas time 2005. he ended up getting caught but he didnt get any jail time or anything. he got probation and has to do CS thats it.
sean @ Jun 25th 2007 2:27PM
write us back and tell us about your road side trash cleansing adventures and what your next heist will be.
andre @ Jun 25th 2007 7:24PM
"T-Mobile keeps a good track of its inventory, and can identify any of the phones if they turn up on the network"
GSM phones are easily unlocked and used on any other network in the world (as long as they're quadband)
At least he wasn't dumb enough to rob a Sprint or Verizion store! That would be useless!