Phone Thief Turns To Extortion

Deputies are investigating an alleged attempt to extort money for the return of an iPhone that was stolen from a Silverwood bathroom last month. According to a Kootenai County Sheriff’s report filed on Monday, the victim, Caroline Clark of Naches, Wash., was visiting Coeur d’Alene on July 25 and took her child to Silverwood. Clark told police that she left her phone on the sink counter in a family bathroom near the gate of the park while tending to her daughter. Clark forgot the phone when she left the bathroom. When she returned for it, the phone was gone. Clark told police that she saw one young woman enter the bathroom but Silverwood security officials were able to contact that woman and determined that she did not have the phone. Two days later, Clark said a young woman contacted her husband’s phone from a cellphone with a blocked number. The caller was a young woman, who wanted money to return the phone/ Jeff Selle , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: How many cell phones have you lost? How did you handle that loss(es)?