A brazen Apple Store theft has resulted in the suspects’ luxury BMW ruined, and the reported criminal mastermind behind bars.
The theft took place on September 6, just after midnight, in Temecula, California. The Temecula Police Department was notified about an alarm going off at the nearby Apple Store and drove over to investigate, reports The Huffington Post.
Responding units found the security gate in front of the store destroyed, and also found substantial damage to the business, but no suspects.
When they reviewed the security footage of the Apple Store theft, police saw a blue BMW X5 SUV crash through the plate-glass window of the store.
Three suspects got out of the car and grabbed items from nearby display tables, focusing on mobile devices instead of the significantly higher priced MacBooks.
While the three crooks grabbed their loot, the getaway driver attempted to back out of the store, only to find that the security gate had fallen down, blocking their escape route. The driver repeatedly smashed the back of the luxury SUV into the gate until it gave way, allowing the BMW to leave the damaged store and drive away.
ABC News notes that the car was too badly damaged to drive away, so the suspects abandoned it a short while later. As for the suspects? The BMW’s owner, Equonne Howard, 22, has been arrested after he was discovered walking near the Apple Store the next morning with the keys to his car in his pocket.
The investigation to catch the other three suspects is ongoing; police have not released information on the inventory that was stolen from the Apple Store. Howard, who is already out on parole for previous convictions of second-degree burglary and robbery, has been charged with five felony counts in relation to the Apple Store theft.
If convicted of all charges in the case, Howard would face nine years and eight months in prison.
They always return to the scene of the crime…
at leat wait until iphone 5, people think their gold and will sell better tahn anything else they grabbed.
You wreck a BMW for an iPhone? Yeah, that's smart.
Apple got people hooked! Android is a no brainwashing device people.
considering 90 percent of the the people out there with nice cars or homes are just a couple missed payments away from repossesion or forclosure its not hard to see someone with to much on there plate lose it and not give a fuck. Things are gonna get ALOT worse
Geez if your going to screw up a nice car and ruin your life atleast wait for the iphone 5 to come out, besides those items are useless without a data plan and the networks will trace the imei if you try to activate it. unless your willing to only be on wifi and how corny is that? plus they wernt even smart enough to use a car that's not theirs? geez criminals these days are stupid thank heavens, the cops don't have to work too hard.
Geez if your going to screw up a nice car and ruin your life atleast wait for the iphone 5 to come out, besides those items are useless without a data plan and the networks will trace the imei if you try to activate it. unless your willing to only be on wifi and how corny is that? plus they wernt even smart enough to use a car that's not theirs? geez criminals these days are stupid thank heavens, the cops don't have to work too hard.
America, lets all take a moment and PRAY for these brainless thieves. They endured all that misery (wrecking the BMW, disparaging their reps, risked getting incarcerated) to come up on 5 last generation iphones and an ipad……
Stop Hating!!!!!!
Agreed. They are insanely stupid. I have a BMW as well, and any minor little thing that goes wrong, i'm hit with $800 +….
Nissa Miguel : Ain't nobody hating, we're just pointing out how stupid people can be. Wreck a beautiful BMW for a couple iPHONEs that cost $200 ??? They should've went straight for the Macbook Pro's that cost $2,000.00 and up.
so they didn't think to use a stolen car? probably his moms BMW….
Is this a joke? Death penalty for these idiots….hahaha.
Napolean Dynamite has something to say, "Iiiiiiiiiiidiots"!
Even if you steal all the iPhones in the store (probably 30 on the tables) they cost $599 without contract it comes out to $17,970. You'll sell them for $100 if you're lucky since they'll have blacklisted Imei's, which makes your profit $3,000. A totaled BMW costs $50,000. Typical rich Californian kids.
Even if you steal all the iPhones in the store (probably 30 on the tables) they cost $599 without contract it comes out to $17,970. You'll sell them for $100 if you're lucky since they'll have blacklisted Imei's, which makes your profit $3,000. A totaled BMW costs $50,000. Typical rich Californian kids.
22 year old black kid with a 50 k SUV. uses it to drive thru an Apple store to steal some Iphones while on Parole for some Burglary and Robbery Charge. Go figure. Where did he get the 50 large to buy the SUV? What ever that was maybe he should have stuck to that as it seems to me like maybe it paid more. Just a thought. And yes they do have a photo up in the California paper. I had to look after seeing the name.
DUMB ASS!
They are stupid…..dumb
They are stupid…..dumb
Maybe it's just me but my OCD would be bad enough to where I would refuse to steal the display models and want the ones in the box lol.
Maybe it's just me but my OCD would be bad enough to where I would refuse to steal the display models and want the ones in the box lol.
STUPID THING TO DO.. WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT THE IPHONE 5, ITS JUST A WASTE OF MON EY TO GET.
Equonne is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Steal a luxury car before you crash through a window moron. Don't use your own car.
I use to live in this town and all it is is stupid rich kids on drugs.
A BMW! Really. What idiots was my first thought. Turned out to be his own car. What a dumbass!
What kind of name is Equonne?
Whatever, apple has been stealing from their customers for years. Why else would they practically make a copy and paste phone every year.
Those scumbags should go to prison and have to pay Apple the hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage they caused to the store, including lost sales from having to rebuild the store. These thieves are obviously dumber than a bag of hammers (and worth less). They should have to work until they pay off their debt (probably the rest of their lives). Our laws to NOT protect the rights of our people very well (and a corporation is just a group of individual people and stockholders).
How dumb..he should get locked up for stupidity! Visit SherryBaby.kitsylane.com
they just wanted to be cool like everyone else who has an apple product.
god there DUMB!
god there DUMB!
Bring back the.69 Taco Bell menu.
Put 2 and 2 together….The name Equonne and a BMW….what image comes up with that combination….There you go!
Brilliance is all over this act! Wreck a BMW (which the total in repair will cost more than what they stole); they left the vehicle behind; then walk by the vehicle the next day. What about goofying up, realize they going to get you, then flee to Mexico or something. Don't go back to the scene of the crime Mr. Theif!
Mucking Forons! :^b
So hard to believe someone would think it was worth doing that for. We know a family whose son is in critical condition after being shot after leaving an apple store. They robbed him of his purchase and took off. It is so tragic.
Hey, these guys are innovators. A Drive In Apple store. Now it's up to Apple to come up with the Drive Out part…..
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It this behavior really worth it? What is really wrong here?