{"id":49681,"date":"2013-01-23T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49681"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:44:51","slug":"sa-thief-grabbed-through-apple-tech-sleuthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49681-sa-thief-grabbed-through-apple-tech-sleuthing","title":{"rendered":"SA thief grabbed through Apple tech sleuthing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A South African house burglar, who terrorised the small coastal community of Vleesbaai, has been caught thanks to Apple<\/a>\u2019s device location technology.<\/p>\n

During the festive season a burglar robbed the house of Vodacom<\/a> Chief Network Officer Johan Engelbrecht<\/a>, and stole the family\u2019s smartphones, iPads and laptops.<\/p>\n

However, the thief left behind one laptop and an iPhone which allowed Engelbrecht to locate one of the iPads through Apple\u2019s \u2018Find my iPad\u2019 app.<\/p>\n

Engelbrecht and his son then personally lead the police to the location of the stolen goods – and the criminal – using the “find my iPad” app. They navigated to the location using the iPhone which was not stolen.<\/p>\n

When the police apprehended the criminal he was still busy sorting the loot which he stole from residents and holidaymakers in Vleesbaai.<\/p>\n

Engelbrecht said that this is a great example how citizens and the police can work together and use technology to fight crime and outsmart criminals.<\/p>\n

\"Find<\/a>

Find my iPad<\/p><\/div>\n

Article courtesy of MyBroadband – SA thief nailed using Apple tech<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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A burglar who terrorised a small community has been caught thanks to Apple\u2019s built-in location technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":49683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,959,1313,1462],"class_list":["post-49681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49684,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions\/49684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}