Apple Crime Log: iPhone-Biting Linebackers, Missing MacBooks, and AirTag Trackers
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In this week’s edition of the iDrop News Apple Crime Log, an NFL player bites his girlfriend’s iPhone, a new Indian Uber employee takes off with his company’s MacBook, and an aide to an Indian politician steals his boss’s iPhone.
Cops Arrest NFL Player for Biting His Girlfriend’s iPhone
Denver Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested on domestic violence charges in early June, reports Fox News. Cooper was involved in a confrontation with his girlfriend, who was also arrested. According to the police report, Cooper did something rather unusual: He bit the woman’s iPhone. That’s not what McGruff meant when he said “take a bite out of crime,” kids.
Cooper and his girlfriend were arguing about Cooper’s alleged infidelity when the woman grabbed his phone and threw it against a wall. The girlfriend then “eventually regained control of the device to go through it.”
As the “conversation” continued, Cooper threatened to break his girlfriend’s cell phone, after which “he bit down and broke the screen on the iPhone.” Per TMZ, Cooper later admitted to breaking the device, which was an iPhone 17.
Both parties were arrested on suspicion of two counts of domestic violence and one count of criminal mischief, with Cooper later entering a not-guilty plea. Cooper was later arrested a second time on June 11 for violating a protection order.
New Employee Takes Early Profit Sharing by Stealing Company MacBook
In a LinkedIn post that’s since been deleted, a top recruiter for Uber in India claimed that a “new employee” ghosted the company on what was to be his first day — but not before he disappeared with a work-issued MacBook.
Mint reports that a candidate for a role with the company in question successfully completed the recruitment process, after which the new employer sent a work MacBook to the designated address. However, the new employee ended up being a “no-show” on day one and deleted their LinkedIn profile entirely after pulling the vanishing act.
The delivery address for the MacBook turned out to be “a vacant plot. Behind an abandoned building.”
When the company’s IT team pinged the laptop remotely, it had been factory reset and was using an encrypted proxy. The ping responses were “from coordinates that should not exist on this planet.”
The recruiter concluded the post by saying that he will now add “confirm candidate physically exists” to his hiring checklist.
Politician’s Aide Accused of Stealing iPhone and Computers
An aide to a member of the Legislative Assembly in India has been booked on charges that he stole several items, including an iPhone 17.
The Times of India reports the accused bad actor is “a youth associated with social media work.” The aide had requested an iPhone 17 and at least two computers and had been allowed to stay in a residential complex. The aide disappeared one night, along with most of the equipment.
Station house officer, Shiv Mangal Singh, said the accused, identified as Arihant Jain, had been engaged to manage the MLA’s social media platforms.
CCTV footage later showed the staffer and other youths “loading items from the room into the car before fleeing toward Burlington Crossing.”
Unfortunately, the registration number of the car could not be determined, as the camera had been damaged.
Florida Man Convicted of AirTag Tracking
A man arrested in 2025 for illegally tracking a woman’s car with an AirTag has been convicted.
The Miami Herald reports that Steven Colon Sr., a 57-year-old man from Sarasota, Florida, was arrested after a woman alerted the Bradenton Police Department that she received an alert about an AirTag that had been tracking her. Upon searching the vehicle, an AirTag was discovered “stuffed in between the plastic covering in the wheel well” in the woman’s car. Police then subpoenaed Apple records to determine that the AirTag was registered to Colon.
Florida law considers tracking another person’s movement or location using a device without their consent as a third-degree felony.
Colon was charged with installing or using a tracking device in March 2025. He pleaded no contest, waiving his right to appeal in April, and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation, according to court records.
The woman had told Bradenton Police that she believed that Colon had placed the AirTag as “retaliation” for a 2022 shooting. Colon’s son was shot and killed by a member of the woman’s family, although that case was ruled as self-defense.
Woman Uses AirTag to Track Husband After He Was Detained by ICE
A Texas woman told Newsweek that she placed an AirTag in her husband’s clothing after he was detained by ICE in late 2025. She did so to allow her to track his movements through the immigration system.
Madison Crider, 31, said her husband, Victor Peralta Perez, 26, an electrician from Venezuela with a pending asylum case and no criminal record, went to a mandatory annual immigration check-in on December 4, 2025. Crider said Peralta Perez had attended a similar appointment the year before and was allowed to leave after being given another date.
Perez was detained this time around.
Anticipating he might be detained, Crider said she placed an AirTag in his clothing before the appointment, providing a way of tracking his movements during periods when she did not hear from him.
The outlet followed data showing the different places the AirTag had moved between facilities. The data showed that Perez was tracked at U.S. Army Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and near the Florence Military Reservation in Florence, Arizona. According to Crider, he was transferred twice early in his detention and moved several more times later, with the lion’s share of his time spent at the Eden Detention Center in Texas.
“With everything I had been seeing in the news with ICE, I had the idea to put an AirTag in his pocket so I would know if they took him,” Crider told Newsweek. “So many people were reporting their family members missing.”
Perez ultimately chose to return to his country.
Suspects Take Two iPhones from Verizon Store
Two suspects, a man and a woman, are being sought by Midland Crime Stoppers for the theft of a pair of iPhone 17 Pro Max models that were stolen from a Verizon Store in Midland, Texas, in early May.
On May 4, two suspects entered a Verizon Wireless store in Midland and stole two iPhone 17 Pro Max’s valued at a total of about $2,600. The female suspect used fake identification when speaking with store clerks. These two suspects we’re told committed the same offense in several other stores in Odessa days earlier.
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Anyone with information can submit a tip by calling 432-694-TIPS or by submitting a tip through Midland Crime Stoppers’ website.
