"Volunteers at a community garden in central London have been reuniting phone theft victims with their stolen devices after finding them buried in flower beds. The Phoenix Garden, which sits off Shaftesbury Avenue in Covent Garden, has seen snatchers attempt to stash stolen phones in the grounds due to its close proximity to the West End. Garden volunteers said they collected the phones from bushes and flowerbeds and handed them to their owners or the police."
"Louise Gates, Phoenix Garden manager, said she often found phones "thrown over the fence from the night before" when she unlocked the garden in the morning. "Some of our volunteers have dug up phones wrapped in tin foil," Ms Gates added. Tin foil is often used by phone snatchers to stop the device's location being detected. It is believed that snatchers, often on electric bikes around hotspot areas like Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road,"
Volunteers at a community garden in central London have been reuniting phone theft victims with their stolen devices after finding them buried in flower beds. The Phoenix Garden, off Shaftesbury Avenue in Covent Garden, has become a temporary stash location because of its proximity to the West End. Volunteers regularly collect phones from bushes and flowerbeds and hand them to owners who track their devices or to police. Some phones have been wrapped in tin foil to block tracking. Snatchers, often on electric bikes near hotspots like Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, appear to drop devices in the garden for later collection. Staff sometimes charge phones or contact emergency numbers to locate owners.
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