SFPD Claims To Know Nothing Of Lost iPhone 5

Yesterday href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/did-apple-lose-an-iphone-5-prototype-at-a-bar/2011/09/01/">we reported on a CNET article that claimed Apple had lost an iPhone 5 prototype at a bar in San Francisco, which oddly mirrored last years leak. As part of that we linked to a CultofMac report which indicated the bar owner had no idea this happened, but it looks like the San Francisco PD are also in the dark — or else keeping mum.

Both href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/sfpd_iphone_5.php">SFWeekly and href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392295,00.asp">PCMag have been talking to San Francisco’s finest, and the police officers seem to have no idea that this happened, nor if there was an investigation.

PCMag spoke with two spokesmen for the San Francisco Police Department, Michael Andraychak and Troy Dangerfield, and neither had any knowledge of the incident, even after they had made several internal queries. Dangerfield also said the SFPD had been on the phone with Apple Global Security for 30 minutes this morning trying to figure out if there was an incident and that Apple was “not giving us anything” and that they were “getting the round around [sic].” Dangerfield said that all the police would need is a name of a victim (presumably the employee who lost it) to perform an adequate search in police records for the incident.

What’s so bizarre about this is that the original report cited Apple and the police attempting to track down the phone together.

It seems bizarre that so few people know if this was a legitimate case or not. We’ll be sure to keep an eye on this one.