Apple Corporate Security Team Searched a Man’s House While SFPD Waited Outside

Apple Corporate Security Team Searched a Man’s House While SFPD Waited Outside


Cryptogon
Saturday, September 3, 2011

In my opinion, the fact that Calderon consented to the search, even though he thought the Apple employees were police officers, is the most terrifying aspect of this.

No warrant, no search. It’s pretty simple.

Why he opened the door, and said anything to these people, is also a mystery to me.

Anyway, here’s a link for Apple’s investigators to review: California Penal Code Section 538d:

Any person other than one who by law is given the authority of a peace officer, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing, of a peace officer, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a peace officer, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is a peace officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Via: San Francisco Weekly:

The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that “three or four” SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man’s home.

Dangerfield says that, after conferring with Apple and the captain of the Ingleside police station, he has learned that plainclothes SFPD officers went with private Apple detectives to the home of Sergio Calderon, a 22-year-old resident of Bernal Heights. According to Dangerfield, the officers “did not go inside the house,” but stood outside while the Apple employees scoured Calderon’s home, car, and computer files for any trace of the lost iPhone 5. The phone was not found, and Calderon denies that he ever possessed it.

In an interview with SF Weekly last night, Calderon told us that six badge-wearing visitors came to his home in July to inquire about the phone. Calderon said none of them acknowledged being employed by Apple, and one of them offered him $300, and a promise that the owner of the phone would not press charges, if he would return the device.

The visitors also allegedly threatened him and his family, asking questions about their immigration status. “One of the officers is like, ‘Is everyone in this house an American citizen?’ They said we were all going to get into trouble,” Calderon said.

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