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Apple’s AirTag tracking devices were recently used to help police arrest a baggage handler who stole luggage from passengers at an airport in Florida.

Apple Insider reports that Apple’s AirTag tracking devices have helped police arrest an airport baggage handler who stole luggage from passengers at Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport located in Florida. Police recovered more than $15,000 in jewelry and other items. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office revealed last week that it had conducted an investigation into suspicious activity at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport after the sheriff’s Airport Security Unit were alerted to thefts relating to stolen luggage handled by an employee.

The baggage handler, an airline subcontractor named Giovanni De Luca, faces two counts of grand theft, the Sheriff’s Office stated. The investigation started in July after a traveler discovered that her luggage had not arrived at her destination. The luggage contained items worth more than $1,600 and had gone missing during her trip.

The traveler had placed an AirTag in her suitcase and as a result, had a record of the locations that it had traveled to. She was able to see that the AirTag was last active in the area of Kathy Court in Mary Esther, Florida. Police cross-referenced employees who lived in the area and found De Luca.

After meeting De Luca at his home, he admitted to going through the passenger’s suitcases for items and removing the AirTag. Police were able to retrieve other items from another stolen suitcase worth more than $15,000.

“This arrest is an example of excellent teamwork by our Airport Security unit, our investigators, and the airport to find the person responsible for these thefts and make sure he is held responsible,” said Sheriff Eric Aden.

This is a nice change of pace from how AirTag’s have been used in the past. Breitbart News has previously reported that criminals were using AirTag tracking devices produced by Apple to aid in the theft of vehicles.

In a blog post, investigators with the York Regional Police Auto and Cargo Theft Unit warned residents that they have “identified a new method being used by thieves to track and steal high-end vehicles” in the area.

The blog post states:

Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name ‘air tags’ are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking lots. Thieves then track the targeted vehicles to the victim’s residence, where they are stolen from the driveway.

Suspects have reportedly been placing the AirTags in “out of sight” areas of cars such as the inside of gas caps or various other crevices. After following their targets home, the criminals are reportedly able to hack the ignition of the vehicles with an electronic device “typically used by mechanics to reprogram the factory setting” before stealing the car from the driveway of its owner.

Read more at AppleInsider here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan

A man who gunned down a perceived rival on a winding, bush-clad Coromandel highway has been jailed for 14 years – and treated to a harsh sendoff from court.

“Rot, you fat f…,” yelled the family of Bayden Williams to Adrian Phillips as he was ushered from a courtroom in Hamilton on Tuesday.

Following an almost six-week trial in the High Court at Hamilton earlier this year, Adrian Reginald George Phillips, 24, was found guilty of murdering Bayden Williams, 20.

Williams was found dead on the side of the Kopu-Hikuai Rd on the Coromandel Peninsula on the evening of Wednesday, August 5, 2020.

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The jury found Phillips had deliberately rammed Williams’ vehicle off a twisting stretch of road. When Williams attempted to climb up a bank back to the roadside, about 7pm that night, Phillips fatally injured him by shooting him three times – in the thigh, shoulder and, finally, his head – with a shotgun.

Phillips’ defence case, led by Ron Mansfield, QC, was that he had fired in self-defence because he believed Williams was advancing on him with a knife. However, the jury agreed with the Crown case, led by Rebecca Mann and Jacinda Hamilton, that Phillips was in a murderous rage when he opened fire and had effectively ambushed Williams on the dark, twisting highway.

There had been bad blood between Phillips and Williams and his father, Lance Williams. The two families had been linked by a pair of twin sisters, one of whom was Phillips’ partner, the other the former partner of Williams – and with whom he had a son, Loki. The pair were rekindling a relationship at the time he was killed.

Phillips returned to the High Court at Hamilton on Wednesday for his sentencing before Justice Melanie Harland.

Lance Williams was also there, and he and his wife, Tracy, and brother Josh spoke of their anguish at hearing the manner of Bayden Williams’ death.

Lance Williams was evidently still furious at the man who killed his son “and rolled him into the bush like some animal”.

Seeing his son in a body bag “with one side of his face blown off” was an image that would always stay with him.

“Had I known you were capable of such a brutal act … I would never have opened my door to you.”

Tracy Williams told Phillips her son was “a people pleaser – a humble dude who made everyone welcome, as he did with you.

“He was such a spark of light in our lives, and you have snuffed him out.”

Josh Williams had a blunt assessment of the situation: “You have broken the hearts of many … I hope your time in prison is miserable with every waking moment.”

Mansfield said the actions of Phillips reflected a failure of the mental health system. His client had suffered horrific injuries in a fuel explosion about a year and a half before the shooting, and he had subsequently been assaulted by Lance and Bayden Williams in a confrontation in Tairua earlier that year.

“The consequences are sadly real. While the physical injuries may have healed, the emotional injuries remained real and raw.”

His issues “had not been adequately identified and treated. If they were, we would not be here today.”

In her submissions, Hamilton said Phillips “chose to put his desire for revenge to the fore. He armed himself … and knowing his capacity for anger he engineered a confrontation likely to trigger him[self].

“This offending is not the result of a mental illness. It is the result of the actions of a vengeful and angry man.”

Justice Harland described Phillips’ decision to intercept Williams’ car on the road as “an impulsive and irrational decision … You were not intending to have a civilised discussion to clear the air between you.”

She stopped short of describing the murder as premeditated, however.

Phillips’ case was comparable to other recent killers, including that of “stop-go” murderer Quentin Winders and the case of Raglan tourist murderer Mark Garson .

Hamilton had sought a minimum period of imprisonment of 15-and-a-half years. Mansfield asked for a 10-year minimum.

Phillips had tendered a letter to the court “offering my wholehearted apology … for what happened”.

“I will never forgive myself for what I did.”

Before the trial, Phillips had pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful possession of a shotgun and ammunition, and the judge sentenced him to a concurrent six months for those offences.

RAPPER A$AP Rocky has been charged in connection to a 2021 shooting in California, said the state’s district attorney on Monday.

A$AP Rocky , real name Rakim Mayers, is facing two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm with allegations of personally using a firearm.

District Attorney George Gascón revealed his office filed the charges against Mayers following the alleged assault against a former friend last November.

The two men allegedly got into an argument on November 6, 2021, which escalated and resulted in the rapper allegedly firing the handgun at the other man, according to authorities.

The Los Angeles Police Department said the victim sustained a minor injury and Mayers allegedly fled the scene with two other people.

He was arrested in April of this year at LAX following a vacation in Barbados with girlfriend, Rihanna.

“Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood,’ said Gascón in a statement.

“My office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.”

Rocky is also being sued for assault and battery by a former member of the ASAP Mob, ASAP Relli, who claims that he is the alleged victim in the shooting.

Relli claims he was hit with bullet fragments and suffered injuries as a result.

Mayers is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday.

He is out on $550,000 bail, reported LATimes .

The U.S. Sun has reached out to A$AP Rocky’s reps for comment.