We’ve seen some pretty extreme iPhone stories in the past, but this might just top the lot. When Berkeley police chief Michael Meehan heard that his son’s iPhone had been stolen, he decided to take action. Extreme action. Using TEN drug task force officers from his force, he set out to find the device, and to top it off, he wasn’t even successful in recovering it!
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
On Jan. 11, Meehan’s son reported that somebody stole his iPhone from his locker at Berkeley High School. The phone was equipped with tracking software [presumably Find My iPhone]. The chief showed his own phone to the property crimes sergeant, who deployed his team and drug task force officers to look for the missing phone, Kusmiss said.
The signal stopped updating the phone’s position near 55th Street and San Pablo in North Oakland. The phone wasn’t found.
Sgt Mary Kusmiss also revealed that four detectives were paid overtime for the search, and with Meehan already embroiled in a controversy about sending an officer round to a reporter’s house after hours, it could become very costly. He is being investigated by a San Francisco law firm, costing Berkeley $25,000 in legal fees.
