
The tale of the lost iPhone 5 prototype just took a twist that would make M. Knight Shyamalan proud: reports that Apple employees may have impersonated San Francisco Police officers, in an attempt to recover the misplaced device. Impersonating a police office is a serious criminal act punishable by up to a year in a California penitentiary. According to 22-year-old Sergio Calderón, who spoke with SF Weekly, six officers (four men and two women) visited his home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco in July, after they had used GPS to trace the device to his residence. The officers wore badges, and identified themselves as San Francisco police officers, Calderón said. They asked him whether he had visited Cava 22, a tequila bar in the Mission neighborhood where the phone ...