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Apple's secret police conducted illegal searches in San Francisco

Published: 04 November, 2011, 23:44

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TAGS: Crime, Scandal, SciTech, Law, Gizmos, Corruption, USA, Culture


One rotten apple that tarnished the reputation of one of the biggest companies in America is gone. The vigilant figurehead of Apple computer’s secret personal police force has resigned after a botched raid earlier this year over a missing iPhone.

John Theriault joined the tanks of Apple back in 2007 as the computer company’s VP of global security, a position that came natural to him following nearly three decades with the FBI. Theriault forgot that he was working for Jobs and not the government, however, and has been criticized for allowing his unit to allegedly impersonate cops during a raid on a San Francisco man’s home earlier this year.

Back in July, the Apple security team stormed the home of a 22-year-old California man, Sergio Calderón, illegally searching the residence for an as-yet-unreleased iPhone prototype that had disappeared from a Bay Area bar. In the days following the raid, it was revealed that some of the men involved were plain-clothes cops working for the San Francisco PD. Also involved, however, were Apple agents who never identified themselves and ransacked Calderón's home, leaving the man to think that legitimate officers were on the scene.

Calderón added afterwards that one of the officers threatened to deport his family and asked for the citizenship of every person in the house.

Following the incident, San Francisco authorities announced that they would be investigating the events, as no record was kept by police officers regarding the encounter at Calderón's residence.

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Last month, the San Francisco Examiner reporter that Calderón had obtained a lawyer to help pursue legal action against Apple and possibly the SFPD.

The phone was never recovered from Calderón’s house, by the way, and when the Apple iPhone 4S was eventually released in October, shares plummeted within minutes.

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bstockert wrote in #9

Korz53- what an ignorant answer. you know nothing about US law. fits perfectly with the usual RT rhetoric however. but then with a name such as yours i have to assume you would know all about secret police. hmmm?


And attacking person's name supposedly adds credibility to what you say?


Go on - back to watching your Glen Beck show now.



Korz53 November 08, 2011, 23:34
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bstockert wrote in #9

Korz53- what an ignorant answer. you know nothing about US law. fits perfectly with the usual RT rhetoric however. but then with a name such as yours i have to assume you would know all about secret police. hmmm?

  You forgot that Pinkerton were a private police in the USA (and are Now a security organization ) had gone after bank robbers  on their own private commercial  authority in the old west. AND that bond jumpers who do not show for court are gone after  with private police called Bondsmen that work for the bond issuer ,   They have more leeway  then that of the  public police do in arresting  the Bond  Jumper and bring them to the Police for court appearance. Hummm..; You are more the propagandist than that of RT, work for the state department?

bstockert November 07, 2011, 08:12
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Korz53- what an ignorant answer. you know nothing about US law. fits perfectly with the usual RT rhetoric however. but then with a name such as yours i have to assume you would know all about secret police. hmmm?