Heist Team Allegedly Stole $500,000 From Drug Dealer by Using an Apple Watch as a Tracker

Food for thought for draw a bead on child spies : there are plausibly sound use cases for turning an Apple Watch into a tracking gimmick . Related advice for adults : do not — I do n’t know how many time I have to enjoin you — use an Apple Watch to conduct a monolithic drug - come to robbery .

The Department of Justice has tell that the leader of a seven - soul gang of tech innovator used an Apple Watch to track and rob a suspect drug dealer of over $ 500,000 . In amotion to opposethe leader ’s bail postulation , DOJ attorneys write that the group stuck the equipment on the dealer ’s bumper and track him to Hartford , CT . The group apparently did not consider the fact that prosecutors can subpoena all their cell phone record book , and the dupe ’s , and that of the vigil .

So they received charges on several counts , but not for nothing , points for creative thinking .

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The scheme allegedly went like this : 30 - year - erstwhile loss leader Darren Lindsay record an Apple Watch to his AT&T design . On July 18th , 2020 , Lindsay and two cooperator trail the auto to a hotel parking lot in Hartford , broke the windowpane , and looked for drug money . Apparently discover none ( to the potential drug dealer ’s credit , they did n’t leave a few hundred grand in the parking lot ) , the team left and then refund for an overnight interest - out . Prosecutors claim that the follow day , the whole work party rove up , shove the victim in an SUV , and punch him in the face until he handed over his hotel key card . One extremity , Indigo Grant , allegedly smuggle a udder contain about $ 500,000 from the way , and they dropped the dupe in the nearby town of New Britain . A hospital later diagnosed him with a concussion , and he get five staples in his scalp .

LikeEl Chapobefore them , they tripped over their own big balls . Lindsay uploaded a private ikon of a massive spile of cash to his iCloud account , and collaborator Antoine Koen postulate a alike phone pic exhibit his nerve in the frame .

The prosecutors add :

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Even more concerning is that the defendant ’s iCloud account also moderate an image of the victim ’s driver license , [ stress : Union public prosecutor ’ ] which was geotagged at a locating in Connecticut during the time of the robbery .

The written document contains even more evidence , let in cost records , text threads discussing the watch passcode and the stake - out , updates on whether the news had reported the robbery , divvying up the cash , and , in the public prosecutor ’ telling , “ having things go more smoothly during succeeding robberies . ” In the words of Darren Lindsay , “ … next prison term I ’ll make indisputable it goes right the first time to void any bullshit . ”

In July , a grand jurychargedthe grouping with various counts . Lindsay faces seven , admit cabal to commit looting , robbery , and piece offenses , which amount to a mandatory minimal time of 24 years in prison house .

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