{"id":68966,"date":"2013-01-22T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=68966"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:09:45","slug":"sa-thief-nailed-using-apple-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/68966-sa-thief-nailed-using-apple-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"SA thief nailed using Apple tech"},"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

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Find my iPad<\/p><\/div>\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":2,"featured_media":68968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,35,12779,41],"class_list":["post-68966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-headline","tag-johan-engelbrecht","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68972,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions\/68972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}