"Police say they have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the last year. In what the Metropolitan Police says is the UK's largest ever operation against phone thefts, 18 suspects have been arrested and more than 2,000 stolen devices discovered. Police believe the gang could be responsible for exporting up to half of all phones stolen in London - where most mobiles are taken in the UK."
""It was actually on Christmas Eve and a victim electronically tracked their stolen iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow Airport," Detective Inspector Mark Gavin said. "The security there was eager to help out and they found the phone was in a box, among another 894 phones." Officers discovered almost all the phones had been stolen and in this case were being shipped to Hong Kong. Further shipments were then intercepted and officers used forensics on the packages to identify two men."
Police dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China over the last year. The Metropolitan Police described the operation as the UK's largest ever action against phone thefts, with 18 arrests and more than 2,000 stolen devices recovered. Officers believe the gang may have exported up to half of phones stolen in London. The operation included tracing a stolen iPhone to a Heathrow-area warehouse, intercepting further shipments, conducting dawn raids on 28 properties in London and Hertfordshire, and using forensics to identify suspects.
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