We have already seen this type of theft on other occasions with various Apple devices such as the iPad or the iPhone, although this time it was a MacBook that was stolen in a rather rugged way and that is a student from the University of Ann Harbor , Paul DeWolf was murdered at his fraternity just one day after the laptop was stolen from the neighboring home leaving clues to the police that the suspects of the robbery could intervene in this event.
And it is that the option "Find my Mac" has helped to locate that MacBook where the police have already declared that "the first great opportunity of the case has come to us at a keystroke."
On October 3, about 45 miles from where the aforementioned student was murdered at his Ann Arbor fraternity, a man in Detroit tried to access a Mac he had just bought. via the Craigslist exchange network. The man did not know, but the Mac laptop had been stolen from DeWolf's next-door neighbor at the time he was killed so police were able to locate the two suspects by tracking the sale.
This is why 21-year-old Shaquille Jones and 20-year-old Joei Jordan ultimately they were arrested and charged with the theft as well as murder suspects. Apple was alerted that the MacBook Air was turned on and the alert was sent that the content would be erased. Police tracked the computer to a home in Glynn Court in Detroit and the man said he received the computer from someone else from Ypsilanti via Craigslist.
It is clear that the security methods for these cases are never enough but it is appreciated that OS X in addition to other measures also has a location for these tasks.
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Source - Detroit Free Press