![]() ![]() He was allowed to pay his fine in instalments of S$1,000.įor dishonest misappropration, he could have been jailed for up to two years, fined or both. Tan wiped away tears from his eyes when he heard this and agreed. If you come to court for a fourth time, you must go to jail, is that clear? So don't be foolish and be tempted." "You see something lying there, you want to take it, but you must not take it. "In life, there are many temptations," she said. Tan said he is now working in a warehouse storeroom and did not want to say anything in mitigation.ĭistrict Judge Jasvender Kaur told him that he was coming to court for the third time for dishonesty and had been given guidance by a counsellor in 2010 but did not learn from it. Tan had also given another account of why he had not returned the phone to investigators, saying he was afraid because of his previous convictions. The prosecutor pointed out that investigations showed Tan had connected his phone to the WiFi in his house. ![]() However, he withdrew these statements when told it qualified his plea. He also said he tried to unlock the phone to locate the owner but could not. Tan initially said that he wanted to return the phone but had no time, and that he was afraid to go to a police station. The prosecutor asked for a fine of at least S$3,000, noting that Tan had previous convictions of dishonest misappropriation in 2019 and theft in 2010. Tan had not made any efforts to trace the phone to its owner and did not surrender it to the authorities. They found it at his home on Mar 12, about three months after it was lost. The authorities discovered that there had been multiple attempts to activate the phone and managed to trace it to Tan. Mr Wang soon realised that his phone was missing and lodged a police report. Near Block 202 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, Mr Wang's phone dropped out of his pouch, which was not zipped up.Ībout 10 minutes later, Tan walked past, saw the phone lying on a grass patch and kept it. The court heard that the owner of the phone, a Mr Wang, had been walking around in an Ang Mo Kio housing estate with the iPhone XR in his waist pouch on Dec 14 last year. On Thursday (Sep 10), 30-year-old Tan Yiap Ming was fined S$3,000 in court for one count of dishonest misappropriation. ![]() The owner, whose phone had dropped out of his unzipped waist pouch, filed a police report and the accused was eventually located. when I received this emails from Apple.SINGAPORE: A man who saw an iPhone worth S$1,000 on a grass patch near an HDB block in Ang Mo Kio took it home and did not return it to the owner. and everything was back to normal.Īfter two months without any news from my old iPhone X (remember I had lost mode on), I was pretty sure they had already taken it apart to resell all the parts (except for the logic board).īut the interesting part started two months later. I bought a brand new iPhone XR (I was very happy with the X model, but I wanted to try this one). I was like: "I need a new phone, I want one NOW" -) I've got all kind of data on it, and I control everything from my phone, doors, lights, and even the sprinkles from the garden. Since I had an iCloud account active, and Find my iPhone and Activation Lock on duty, I knew my data was protected. I've also got iCloud backup on, so all my data is on the cloud. I use a 15 digits alphanumeric password (I’m a weirdo, I know.) -thanks Apple for Touch ID and Face ID-, and of course, I always have two factor authentication on. I was sure that I hadn't lost it, so, what was the point on putting a number. I enabled the option “Lost Mode” from the app, and even added my girlfriend's phone number so that if somebody found it, He/she could dial that number (from another phone) and try to reach me and give me my phone back, just in case. If they had turned it off that fast, they knew what they were doing. I accepted the reality, my loved iPhone X was gone. ![]() Dont get caught paying for litigation that wont reap any reward. So, after a few minutes in shock, asking myself all kinds of questions such as how could that have happened to me. Just because the neighbors kid ran a dune buggy over your lawn and caused 17,500 in. Out of luck, the iPhone was already off, they had already shut it down so that it couldn't be traced. I checked Find my iPhone app with my girlfriend's iPhone to check for the location of the phone, and made it play a sound, to be able to locate it. Īt the beginning I thought I had dropped it on the floor, but after a couple of minutes I realized that was not the case. I was having a nice breakfast with my girlfriend and someone took it from my jacket. In January 2019 my beautiful and loved iPhone X was stolen on a cafeteria in Madrid. ![]()
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