One iPhone Led Police to Gang Who Sent 40,000 Stolen UK Phones to China
Police have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year.
In what the Metropolitan Police says is the UK's largest ever operation against phone thefts, 18 suspects have been arrested and more than 2,000 stolen devices discovered.
"It was actually on Christmas Eve and a victim electronically tracked their stolen iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow Airport," Detective Inspector Mark Gavin said.
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