Devices on display in Apple Stores might be quite easy to steal, but they are impossible to sell and also useless thanks to a range of measures Apple employs on its demo hardware. Yet one thief in the UK went back for seconds at Apple's Bluewater store in Kent and got nicked for a spree of other thefts in the process.
As confirmed by Kent Police in a statement, “Patrolling officers in Bluewater have arrested a man suspected of stealing laptops worth over £15,000. The constables were in the shopping centre on Wednesday 24 January 2024 when they were notified of a reported theft from the Apple store.” In tandem with the Bluewater security team, they managed to locate and arrest the man, recovering the most recently stolen MacBook in the process.
