Couple turn detective to track down iPad stolen by aviation engineer
A husband wife teamed up to crack the case of their missing iPad and helped net an airline worker who had stolen the tablet.
The Filipino aviation engineer appeared at Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday, where he admitted theft. The iPad owner had flown into Dubai from his home in India for a meeting in February but, after stepping off the plane, he realised the device was missing from his hand luggage.
He contacted customer services and lost and found at the airport but nobody had handed it in.
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An aviation engineer admitted pocketing device after he was tracked down by the owners
The businessman returned to India that night but refused to give up the hunt for his iPad. He and his wife embarked on a cyber search for it via an app using iCloud.
He had installed software on the iPad that stores information about the owner and allows users to track movement of the device.
The couple logged on and discovered that someone had changed the data on the iPad, including the owner’s details. The wife called police in Dubai believing they had identified the suspect after searching the new owner’s name on social networks.
A police officer told the court: “I asked the wife how they knew the identity of the man since they were living in India.
“She told me there was a serial number on the iPad and they discovered the suspect had changed the data and put his name in.”
The policeman added: “They searched for him on facebook and were sure they had their man when they saw he worked for Emirates Airline.”
Officers then arrested the suspect.
The officer said: “We questioned him and he confessed that after all the passengers had got off the plane, he went inside to check the systems and found the iPad.
“He stole it but claimed he doesn’t know why he did it.”
The defendant will be sentenced later this month.
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Comments
by skullcandy
Monday, May 07 2012, 2:00PM
“@DIWATA so what????? You weren't the one who stole the ipad... why are you apologizing for ALL Filipinos?? There's a Filipino who was arrested in Australia for shoplifting, you wanna apologize for him too? There's a Filipino who killed someone in Singapore, you wanna apologize for her too? Everytime a Filipino does something wrong you'd apologize? For what? What's the point?? ILLOGICAL!”
by DIWATA
Monday, May 07 2012, 1:24PM
“@ SKULLYCANDY... so what if i apology in behalf of the Filipino bcoz im a Filipino.. I am ashame of what he did.. so sorry for this.. thats it.. what is the problem if i say sorry for this Filipino.. nothing to lose..”
by skullcandy
Monday, May 07 2012, 1:11PM
“Hey, DIWATA!!! Why are you apologizing on behalf of other Filipinos??? So what if the thief was Filipino???”
by access_mail
Monday, May 07 2012, 12:03PM
“it is a question of being honest and sincere... and you cannot say that this guy can't afford to buy an iPad as he must be receiving good salary as a aviation engineer not to mention to the fact that he is a professional and well educated. afterall, most politicians and government officials if not all in the philippines are professionals and well educated, but the country had been surged with the dilemma of corruption; lacking the sincerity and honesty to serve it people who majority lived in dire poverty.
in contrast, recently there was an airport cleaning lady named, mary jennifer doroga, 32 yrs old, who returned a pouch full of foreign currency amounting to php1.2M (about AED100T) to lost and found section of the airport in manila. ''All I want is to help my family with honey pay from honest work. That's my simple joy,'' she said in the vernacular. She may be a lowly janitress, but Doroga towers above all with her integrity and work ethics.”
by DIWATA
Monday, May 07 2012, 9:03AM
“sorry for this Filipino.. craving of an IPAD he is in jail... he never think of the circumstances that anytime he will be tracked down .. anyway, due to being a theft he must go in jail and hopefully he will learn a lesson from his mistake. for just an IPAD he lost his job in Emirates and going in jail..”