After all of the gambling and cars and golds, the three men accused of siphoning roughly $228,000 in iPhones through a hole in a warehouse were still tracked down by Beijing police.
The three suspects are accused of boring an approximately 20-inch hole into a wall leading to the cache of Apple merchandise. The men then made off with 240 iPhone 6 handsets, according to state-run Xinhuanet.
One of the three suspects once worked as a driver for the logistics company that owned and managed the warehouse where the smartphones were secreted away through the hole. The incident is believed to have occurred between Dec. 12 and 13, 2014 and, according to Xinhuanet's report, the three suspects were arrested later that month.
The men are said to have sold the majority of the cache of ill-gotten iPhone 6 devices. Authorities stated that the accused blew the majority of the proceeds on cars, gold and gambling. Despite converting the stolen goods, the men were linked to the theft of the smartphones via the serial numbers on some of the iPhone 6 handsets.
Apple's latest smartphones have been at the heart of other crimes in China recently. A few weeks after the iPhone 6 heist, a man was discovered to be smuggling 94 of the handsets into mainland China, according to reports.
The way the man was walking tipped authorities to the 94 iPhones that were strapped to his person. He was arrested as he neared a checkpoint in Shenzen's Futian District in China's Gaungdong Province.
In another incident involving an iPhone, a teenager was allegedly attempting to sell one of his kidneys to fund the purchase of one of the iOS devices. That incident occurred in 2014, but it has prompted some Chinese citizens to call Apple's latest series of handsets the "Kidney 6."
The high demand and low supply of iPhone 6 handsets have prompted some individuals to take extreme measures to acquire one or more of the devices, but now Apple is finally maintaining a healthy stock of the merchandise.
All versions of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are available at Apple's online store and the devices can be activated on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon plans. Now that the supply is on par with demand, there's a good chance that some of the wireless carriers will return to offering those one-upper deals that helped drive the iPhone 6 series out of warehouses when the handsets were launched in September 2014.
