Black and white versions of the new iPad 2 are displayed during an Apple Special event on March 2, 2011 in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN CARLOS (CBS SF) – Thieves stole at least 125 Apple iPads from a Best Buy electronics store in San Carlos Thursday night, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies reported to the store at 1127 Industrial Road at about 11:50 p.m., one minute after the commercial alarm began sounding when the suspects pried open the store’s front doors and a security roll-up door, according to the sheriff’s office.
The deputies determined that the suspects slid under the jacked-up security gate and dragged a large locked steel rack containing the 125 tablet computers through a fire exit door and onto a vehicle.
Sheriff’s officials said the loss to the store is estimated to be more than $100,000. According to Best Buy’s website, the latest generation iPads retail for between $500 and $830, depending on storage and networking options.
The suspects fled the scene and had not been found as of Friday morning. The sheriff’s office said there was no description immediately available for them or their vehicle.
Anyone who has information about the burglary is asked to contact sheriff’s Detective Victor Bertolozzi at (650) 363-4057 or to call the office’s anonymous tip line at (800) 547-2700.
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Round up all the employees and put through lie detector.
December 10, 2011 at 12:30 pm | | Report comment
I’m glad you see things our way.
December 10, 2011 at 9:08 pm | | Report comment
sorry I mean were they white???
December 10, 2011 at 10:42 pm | | Report comment
Clearly you are deranged and confused. A big whopping total of 3 people have been waterboarded and they were known terrorists, not thieves.
December 11, 2011 at 5:08 am | | Report comment
Doubt it. These guys sound clever.
December 11, 2011 at 5:50 am | | Report comment
well they sound like thieves – so there is your true indicator they aren’t white. Oh I’m sorry – did the racist offend the racist in denial?
December 12, 2011 at 6:38 am
serves best buy right… over priced idiots
December 11, 2011 at 5:55 am | | Report comment
What a fool!
December 11, 2011 at 9:18 am
its because of the theives that the prices go up dum az
December 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Apple sets the price for which their product can be sold you schmuck
December 11, 2011 at 3:13 pm
This wasn’t an inside job, you moron.
December 11, 2011 at 9:11 am | | Report comment
Waterbording is good for you….
December 11, 2011 at 9:39 am | | Report comment
With it’s war on Christmas last year and it”s war on Santa this year, I AM GLAD BEST BUY GOT ROBBED.
December 11, 2011 at 10:46 am | | Report comment
Best Buy has a war on Christmas. You are an idiot, without Christmas and Santa their sales would be markedly reduced.
You fall for all that Christian victimhood BS. Commercial entities are to make sales not further spirituality.
December 12, 2011 at 6:44 am
Obama will bail them out, they are just redistributing wealth for all the poor people in the hood, yo.
December 11, 2011 at 10:50 am | | Report comment
Sgt, you little white pointy hat is beginning to show!
December 12, 2011 at 2:04 am
@beatdude – truth hurts don’t it? Your little black dunce cap is showing
December 12, 2011 at 6:13 am
Beatdude is a li b ta rd.
December 12, 2011 at 6:19 am
The only thing the thieves did not think about should not the ipads be registered before use if so the thieves will be tracked down.
December 11, 2011 at 11:09 am | | Report comment
Assuming Best Buy has the servial numbers of the stolen units. Pity on those that purchase these stolen units.
December 11, 2011 at 11:40 am
So all employees are guilty until proven innocent? Glad you’re not a Judge.
December 10, 2011 at 3:39 pm | | Report comment
Glad you’re not a detective
December 10, 2011 at 3:51 pm | | Report comment
Someone working there knows something, as it’s almost certain that inside information was needed. It won’t take a lie detector to figure it out – just a good detective who knows what to look for. The person(s) hiding something will stand out.
Presumed innocent or presumed guilty, why is it deemed unjust for law enforcement to investigate all possible leads? If it was your stuff stolen you’d want a thorough investigation.
December 10, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Hold it, and electronics store and no video cameras Daaaaaa
December 10, 2011 at 5:48 pm | | Report comment
buymore!!!!!!! call in Chuck!!!!!!!!11
December 10, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Nerd Herd to the rescue!
December 12, 2011 at 6:22 am
The more to the left California drifts, the better example they set for what the rest of us shouldn’t be doing. California dreamin’? No thanks.
December 10, 2011 at 3:47 pm | | Report comment
Wow, I never realized that the rest of the country was crime free.
December 10, 2011 at 6:19 pm | | Report comment
Sell them $250 each on Craigslist, they will be gone in 30 minutes
December 10, 2011 at 3:50 pm | | Report comment
Not without a trace. Most criminals aren’t smart enough to know how to obscure their IP address. Short of out of the back of a car, there is always a trail. Granted, Craigslist is one of the smarter ways to do it online, but it’s not foolproof.
December 10, 2011 at 6:06 pm | | Report comment
One could use,
Starbucks free wifi.
Cheap usb wifi adapter.
Smash hard drive and adapter when done.
December 11, 2011 at 10:55 am
Serial numbers? On iPads? Nonsense!
December 10, 2011 at 9:11 pm | | Report comment
All apple products have serial numbers and have to be activated with a Apple ID with a credit card number.
December 11, 2011 at 7:19 am
Apple products are typically fenced overseas. I’m sure these are on their way to Mexico or out to sea with a cargo ship that just left a west coast port of call headed into Asia. Some smarties will reset their MAC address and sold on the black market. Apple will just write this off as shrink and the store employees are not going to see any bonuses anytime soon.
December 11, 2011 at 1:32 am | | Report comment
Someone should post 200+ ipads for sale on San Fran craigslist.
December 12, 2011 at 6:20 am | | Report comment
Just wait until the stolen iPads try to access the internet. I’m sure their codes and IDs are already in a database waiting for some idiot to get online.
December 10, 2011 at 3:52 pm | | Report comment
I find it hard to believe all 125 iPads were the 3G 64GB models. I think the loss should be a little south of $70k
December 10, 2011 at 3:56 pm | | Report comment
add any damages to the store, the loss in display equipment, and the need to change any locks or replace display cases that may have been keyed the same as the stolen display case.
December 10, 2011 at 7:49 pm | | Report comment
Their actual loss as recognized by their insurance carrier will be the amount that they paid for them (wholesale) not the retail value.
December 11, 2011 at 7:04 am | | Report comment
Asian gangs… Probably Vietnamese Chinese did this…
December 10, 2011 at 3:57 pm | | Report comment
more likely guidos ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
December 10, 2011 at 5:58 pm | | Report comment
Or eses.
December 10, 2011 at 7:24 pm | | Report comment
I call Amish.
December 10, 2011 at 10:00 pm | | Report comment
obv it was viking marauders. duh.
December 11, 2011 at 5:52 am | | Report comment
Those damned thieving Irish!
December 11, 2011 at 9:49 am | | Report comment
Nanook of the north,
Those pesky Eskimos!
December 11, 2011 at 10:59 am
My guess is Whitey did it.
December 12, 2011 at 6:36 am | | Report comment
I’m gonna go with midget clowns on unicycles. A whole platoon of the b@$t@rd$, led by a leprechaun riding a miniature unicorn from Zimbabwe.
December 12, 2011 at 7:15 am | | Report comment
What is your name again, Is it Dong Me Suck?
December 13, 2011 at 3:05 am | | Report comment
Its gonna be fun when the iPads tell the authorities where they are!
December 10, 2011 at 4:01 pm | | Report comment
“Deputies reported to the store at 1127 Industrial Road at about 11:50 p.m., one minute after the commercial alarm began sounding”
Those are some fast thieves if the cops were there ONE MINUTE after the alarm sounded!
December 10, 2011 at 4:02 pm | | Report comment
so now everyone knows “GONE IN 60 SECONDS” is actually real life requirements to be successful. thanks.
December 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm | | Report comment
almost like they knew where the merchandise was before they went in.
December 10, 2011 at 4:11 pm | | Report comment
Hmm. Imagine that!
December 10, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Criminals are pressing in on us, from the top to the bottom: Criminal crony government, rigged gangster casino markets, counterfeit money the Fed generates at will, millions of looters who contribute nothing and bleed taxpayers dry, street criminals brazenly assaulting people in mob attacks, stores being overrun by gangs of ‘youth’, foreign criminal gangs dealing in theft of all kinds, millions of criminals strolling over our unprotected borders or paying human smugglers, giant pedophilia rings at ‘respectable’ institutions, et fricking cetera.
December 10, 2011 at 4:10 pm | | Report comment
Greg, you have summarized the dire situation facing the good citizens of the USA…
In a word: lawlessness
December 10, 2011 at 5:13 pm | | Report comment
In a word: Anarchy
December 10, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Exactly why I have a CHL and carry 24/7.
December 11, 2011 at 6:11 am
Oh, just realized this is in Kalifornia where only the rich and famous can get a CHL, but say the average Joe shouldn’t be allowed to carry. Isn’t it great that people who surround themselves with armed bodyguards deny others the ability to defend themselves?
December 11, 2011 at 6:13 am
at least they were not trying to live in a city park for free…
December 10, 2011 at 4:11 pm | | Report comment
Free to them, but costing the city millions and driving local businesses to bankruptcy.
But anybody trying to earn a living by selling stuff to other human beings is part of the 1%.
If they were real human beings, they would work for free and give away all their products for free.
Of course their suppliers would stop supplying them when they didn’t get paid, because they’re part of the 1% too.
December 10, 2011 at 9:06 pm | | Report comment
They will phone home and the criminals will be in prison just in time for xmas.
http://911essentials.com
December 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm | | Report comment
Steve Jobs would be proud that they only stole I-Pads, not Microsoft junk.
December 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm | | Report comment
Nice one!
December 10, 2011 at 5:48 pm | | Report comment
gay comment
December 10, 2011 at 6:19 pm
What’s it cost to have off-hours monitored video survelliance where they can put a camera on the perps immediately and initiate a response? $100/night?
What’s an armed guard on property after hours run, $500/night?
Combine the two at random locations on random nights and for an average of $300/night you have a pretty burglar proof inventory.
December 10, 2011 at 4:39 pm | | Report comment
Why do you need security when your merchandise will alert you to where it is?
December 10, 2011 at 5:11 pm | | Report comment
Unless it’s an inside job.
December 10, 2011 at 9:07 pm | | Report comment
You’re forgetting that to qualify as a security guard you need a minimum of 25 violent felony convictions.
December 11, 2011 at 8:35 am | | Report comment
Just bought a super cheap Ipad on craigslist. guy was living in a van. i’m sure it was legit….he said he could sell me 500 more. lol. jk
December 10, 2011 at 4:46 pm | | Report comment
And lets not forget, the OWS crowd would be cheering these guys on. This is what they live for, stickin’ it to the man!! Dang that capitalism!!
December 10, 2011 at 4:49 pm | | Report comment
I do not understand how people who will be getting caught by using these think that it is worth the prison term? No one will be able to use these with the serial numbers waiting to be used via the internet. As soon at they go online they will be caught. Why not work the hours and buy one. Even at min. wage that is less than a week of work. Versus a year in county or even probation its not worth the fines and penalties. We are just one diasaster from total chaos here in California. The mobs of ignorant and violent youth that care only about how they are seen and what they got instead of real values are angry at whitey and those that have what they want, only a matter of time until they swarm.
December 10, 2011 at 4:54 pm | | Report comment
If you have to measure your gadget budget by how many weeks of work it will take to gt the gadget, then you are too poor to afford gadgets. Gadgets are for people with disposable income, not losers who have to hock their granny for an iPad.
December 10, 2011 at 6:22 pm | | Report comment
I’m not sure which is more unbelievable. The fact that the burglars were able to do all of what the article reports and be clean gone in less than a minute. Or that the cops showed up only one minute after the alarm went off.
December 10, 2011 at 5:00 pm | | Report comment
I seriously doubt the cops were there one minute after the alarm went off. They were likely there one minute after being dispatched to check the alarm (which itself is a damn excellent response time – average response time in my city is 7 minutes between dispatch and officer arriving on scene. Must have been a car right there). There is a delay between the alarm going off, dispatch getting the notification of the alarm from the alarm company, and dispatch assigning a unit to the location.
More likely, the police were there 5-10 minutes after the alarm initially went off.
December 11, 2011 at 6:22 am | | Report comment
they obviously hid in the store and then broke out geniuses.
December 10, 2011 at 5:15 pm | | Report comment
Any potential buyer with half a brain will see it’s hot. As soon as it connects to the internet it will scream “stolen” and the sucker that bought it will quickly give up whomever he bought it from.
The real losers are the consumers who’ll have to pay more at Best Buy to make up for the loss/increased insurance premium
December 10, 2011 at 5:39 pm | | Report comment
Being forced to purchase all of my electronics at Best Buy is really breaking my bank account.
December 10, 2011 at 9:17 pm | | Report comment
When I lived in Florida this kind of crime was going on and it was an inside job at the Rent A Centers. The employees would take the electronics off the walls, out the back door, then come back in and make it look like a break in. By the time the alarm went off the truck with the electronics was long gone.
December 10, 2011 at 5:39 pm | | Report comment
Those iPads were “liberated” from Best Buy, just like the OWS squatters “liberate” homes from WAMU.
What’s the prob?
December 10, 2011 at 6:25 pm | | Report comment
The I-pad will I-rat!
December 10, 2011 at 6:34 pm | | Report comment
If these people were smart enough to get through the door and the pull-down gate, and then have a vehicle ready to have the iPads loaded and gone within a minute, they are likely smart enough to know what precautions must be taken to not get caught with the goods.
December 10, 2011 at 6:43 pm | | Report comment
Best Buy has all the serial numbers of the stolen devices, so when the end user activates his device, over-the-internet alarms will go off. Tracking will commence and people will be arrested. Stealing one of these is grand theft, a felony. But alas, California lets no crime go punished, so Best Buy will be sued for the money it lost.
I hope these crinals are captured outside of California.
Stupid criminals, liberal democrats, same thing.
December 10, 2011 at 7:04 pm | | Report comment
Yep, unfortunately in California DOES let crimes go unpunished now! They’ll do very little time…maybe several months to a couple years in a county jail because the prisons are so full and the state makes the county take them, then the counties let them get out early. Thanks Dems!
December 10, 2011 at 9:01 pm | | Report comment
As long as the thieves didn’t break the on-box security tape or void any warranties, everything will work out ok.
December 10, 2011 at 9:21 pm
That’s right steal from a retail store your a major criminal, steal billions from your clients accounts at MF Global and you’re just really smart and deserve a golden parachute with bonus.
December 11, 2011 at 11:10 am | | Report comment
So the police arrived a “minute” after the alarm went off and the thieves pried opened two doors, slid under, dragged a steel container through another door and loaded it into a car in that minute……
Why do I doubt the police?
December 10, 2011 at 7:43 pm | | Report comment
Maybe it was a Police job.
December 11, 2011 at 11:00 am | | Report comment
glad i dont work for master robbing hoods as im sure your upper management some where. God i need to move to Russia a country full of Putins has to be better than the current USA.
December 10, 2011 at 8:35 pm | | Report comment
No one’s stopping you. Bon voyage.
December 10, 2011 at 11:18 pm | | Report comment
commrade delatopia sorry about the comment i wasnt tring to upset you.
December 11, 2011 at 9:31 am
All Best Buy Stores have 24hr camera surveillance. these fools are toast.
December 10, 2011 at 8:43 pm | | Report comment
Unless they disabled them too.
February 1, 2012 at 7:45 pm | | Report comment
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Could this be another Eric Holder botched Fast n Furious operation?
December 10, 2011 at 9:46 pm | | Report comment
unless the thieves are idiots they are already on their way east. Im sure they could sell 125 ipads to unsuspecting people in Vegas overnight. My guess is we wont ever see these until unsuspecting people open up their christmas presents.
December 10, 2011 at 11:24 pm | | Report comment
Proof positive iyou can’t cure stupid. Anyone who is dumb enough to steal anything electronic in this day and age deserves the whooping that will come their way. Every camera, car, phone, computer, tv, dvd player etc has tracking devices on board. Even if they jail break the IPADS, yank out the battery whatever they can still track you. That computer can and will be tracked and the low iq idiots that stole them are looking at felonies given the dollar value of the items taken…
December 10, 2011 at 11:32 pm | | Report comment
Unfortunately there are ways to resetting the serial number and MAC addy on these things. Comes down to how sophisticated they are. This a bunch of local hoods that will try to sell them at local flea market or a sophisticated syndicate with a third world smuggling line?
December 11, 2011 at 1:39 am | | Report comment
Those things will sell like fire on craigslist…in fact at one hundred grand for one minutes work I bet they take it nice and easy and sell a half dozen a month while living like investment bankers for the next six months. Cudos, they learned how to really profit in modern America THANK GOD for Fox News and Republicans teaching everyone tat crime DOES PAY in the U.S.!!!
December 11, 2011 at 11:13 am | | Report comment
Best Buy got ripped off…boo-hoo, care not I.
December 11, 2011 at 1:07 am | | Report comment
Barney, lawlessness thrives because people like you except thievery, there is no excuse for steeling whoever the victim is.
December 11, 2011 at 7:58 am | | Report comment
Lawlessness thrives because the 1% are showing everyone stealing it the way to get rich quick. NO ONE EMULATES THE POOR MORON.
December 11, 2011 at 11:15 am
@Dave – hmmmm please poitn out the last time a multimillionaire B&E’d a Best Buy – or camped illegally in a public place and deficated in public, or did a mob rush on a 7-11 – oh I guess you’re the moron Dave – not to mention obviously a bitter, lazy loser who doesn’t have the talent to make their own way so whines abotu those that do
December 12, 2011 at 6:31 am
@Dave – hmmmm please poitn out the last time a multimillionaire B&E’d a Best Buy – or camped illegally in a public place and deficated in public, or did a mob rush on a 7-11 – oh I guess you’re the moron Dave – not to mention obviously a bitter, lazy loser who doesn’t have the talent to make their own way so whines abotu those that do
December 12, 2011 at 6:31 am
Freeking Democrats! Check the people who voted for Obama……..bet one of them did it.
December 11, 2011 at 3:23 am | | Report comment
No problem, California likes those illegal aliens. They let them get by with most anything.
December 11, 2011 at 4:48 am | | Report comment
Steve Oh- You’re sure that a burned in address BIA can be reset?
December 11, 2011 at 6:27 am | | Report comment
oooh more techie posers… it’s a chip you idiot – anything can be spoofed – it shows you’re a teacher because you are clueless but felt the need to open your mouth anyway – just like Steve O and his MAC “addy” – techrejects
December 12, 2011 at 6:34 am | | Report comment
i want an ipad
December 11, 2011 at 6:51 am | | Report comment
Pretty efficient thieves to get to the steel rack, carry it to and out of the fire exit, load it on their vehicle and drive away; all in under one minute.
December 11, 2011 at 7:33 am | | Report comment
Couldn’t happen to a nicer store….Best Buy SUX!!!!!
December 11, 2011 at 8:15 am | | Report comment
Should we hold a charity event for Best Buy?
December 11, 2011 at 8:30 am | | Report comment
All I want to know is where can I find these recently discounted iPads?
December 11, 2011 at 9:35 am | | Report comment
This was an inside job. See you on EBay and Craigslist.
December 11, 2011 at 9:44 am | | Report comment
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How do they plan on disabling the tracking chip without ruining the device? must be destined for China
December 11, 2011 at 10:53 am | | Report comment
they don’t you idiot – they sell them to ignorant inner city aholes that think they’re getting over on the man by buying stolen goods – it’s not a service contract you mushminded freak. Sell cheap and disappear
December 12, 2011 at 6:35 am | | Report comment
Congratulations! Nothing like seeing some average poor Americas getting back some of them 16 trillion dollars stolen by the rich during the bail out charades. If more Americans were patriotic like these guys we’d see the wealth gap dissolving quick and the economy turning around. It is only fair to steal from the rich they stole from you to become rich.
December 11, 2011 at 11:05 am | | Report comment
Dave, Communists like you are the problem!
December 11, 2011 at 2:54 pm | | Report comment
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I cannot believe these thieves got away with this.
Sad.
Oh well: anyone want a really good deal on an iPad2? Got ‘em in black and white, will ship to you!
December 11, 2011 at 4:50 pm | | Report comment
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No cameras Best Buy??
December 11, 2011 at 8:01 pm | | Report comment
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Best Buy was created from a tornado that hit a TV store in Minnesota. The store salvaged what it could and had a Best Buy sale. The sale was so successful that Best Buy company was formed to give people the best prices around. I love Best Buy. I hope they catch the crooks.
December 12, 2011 at 1:11 am | | Report comment
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I feel sorry for the people who will buy these stole iPad2 for $50 to $100 cheap and try to activate them on iTunes. Bestbuy probably has already provided the stolen iPad2′s serial numbers to iTune. When these people try to active their stolen iPad2 on iTunes, it will either cannot be activated or the police show up a few hours later after activation. “THERE IS AN APP FOR THAT!”
December 12, 2011 at 11:51 am | | Report comment
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January 7, 2012 at 9:01 am | | Report comment
Im sure theres 123 californias who purchased an Ipad from off the street recently for $300 or less. ( Dont forget the thieves kept one each for themselves).
January 14, 2012 at 7:20 am | | Report comment
They will hit again once they spend all that money on drugs. I bet you these guys have facebooks hehe.
January 14, 2012 at 7:23 am | | Report comment