Baker’s stolen iPhone was not the only one to have cracked from this improbable place. Since the end of last year, dozens of confused and angry people have contacted Christ Fellowship to point out that their stolen iPhones were held there.
“I stopped counting,” said Pastor Gideon Apé, “because of the number of people.”
The stolen telephone victims called, sent an email and sent desperate messages via Instagram, said Apé. One presented himself at the church gateway with a police officer.
The flights of which an avenue to hear has occurred from top to bottom on the east coast – from a Music Festival in Philadelphia to a pub in Fort Lauderdale, in Florida. Reports have also come from Atlanta, Washington, DC, many other cities in Florida and beyond.
Apé is categorical on the fact that no iPhone flight ring is short of its church, and it is disconcerted by what is really happening.
Douglas McKelway, a special FBI criminal division supervision agent, said the reason why criminal groups targeted so aggressively: people have less money these days, and it is easier than ever to sell stolen phones on the black market.
“Telephones are mainly in cash for criminals,” he said.
The baker test opens a window on the dark world of iPhone flight rings. It also illustrates how China demand for secondary phones and their parts helps fuel an increase in flights to the United States despite Apple efforts to improve the safety of devices.
According to experts, the zero land for the black iphones market is the Chinese city of Shenzhen, a sponsor of electronics where dealers are known to buy and sell used phones without asking questions. This is where the phones have stolen from many people in the United States who pings for the last time, according to interviews with several victims and online publications carried out by others.
Although it is clear why the trips of the phones stop there, there is a mystery why so many stolen devices cross Miami.
The answer to another question is even more elusive: if the phones are not kept in church, where are they?
Impious accusations
It was at the end of August when a person contacted the scholarship of Christ to point out that their stolen phone seemed to be there. The Instagram message came from a 27 -year -old woman living in Kissimmee, a city of Florida about 220 miles from Miami.
The timing was strange. The four -story Baptist church, built in 1926, was being renovated since 2018 and was still closed to the public.
Apé said that there was not much thought of it. Church officials were busy preparing for the reopening of the church in December.
About two weeks later, a woman from Caroline du Nord sent a Facebook message strongly formulated to Christ Fellowship. His iPhone had been stolen in a bar in Raleigh on September 6, and he was cracked in church four days later.
“I look at myself, you all direct an operation here for” under construction “,” wrote the woman, Danielle Connochie, 29 years old. “I will contact the authorities.”
