On April 2, 2023 burglars cut through the wall of a neighboring espresso machine shop to steal $500,000 in Apple products from the Alderwood Mall Apple store in Washington.
The perpetrators stole hundreds of iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches sometime after 7:00 p.m. local time on Sunday night, April 2. The store was closed at the time of the theft, and it was Monday morning before Apple employees learned of the heist.
The bad guys cut through a bathroom wall in an adjoining espresso machine retail store. The store owner said he had been in the mall for five years and hadn’t seen anything like this happen during that time.
“Our front door was locked. They pried our front door open,” Seattle Coffee Gear Regional Manager Eric Marks told Komo News.
“[It was a] 24 by 18 hole cut in the wall into what appears to be the back room of the Apple store,” he continued. “I’m surprised we were the conduit for them to get to the Apple store, I had no clue we were so close or adjacent to them.”
Seattle Coffee Gear said the store’s locks had been changed and that the “hole-in-the-wall gang” cost them an estimated $1,800 in damages.
With the first anniversary of the burglary just one day away, the theft is still unsolved, with no arrests being made as of yet.
A spokeswoman for the Lynnwood Police Department told AppleInsider that the case was “being worked on at the federal level.”
