Apple picker goes to prison

**Michael Essany** · 08-27-2009, 09:04 AM

A man from Kalamazoo, Michigan is on his way to jail for allegedly defrauding Apple out of an estimated 9,000 iPods.

What did he do?

The twenty-three-year-old man, who plead guilty to mail fraud earlier this year, devised a way to obtain the serial numbers of iPod shuffles still under warranty.

By pretending to be an irate Apple customer with a malfunctioning unit that warrants a free replacement, the brazen criminal obtained more than 9,000 iPods and then sold them at a discount for profit.

A federal judge sentenced the man to 13 months in prison. He also has to pay nearly $650,000 in restitution to Apple.

A defense lawyer on the case was quoted saying that the court "showed leniency" with that punishment.

**dale1v** · 08-27-2009, 09:09 AM

lol, I remember this from a while back. Poor fool xD

**dq13** · 08-27-2009, 09:14 AM

Holly crap!! 9000???
does that mean he made up 9000 names and last names and walked into the apple store to get a new one?? LOL j/k

**daching** · 08-27-2009, 09:14 AM

Wow, what an idiot.

**Melech518** · 08-27-2009, 09:16 AM

Haha, I think he is pretty clever. Too bad he got caught

**GregTheWang** · 08-27-2009, 09:40 AM

lol owned.

**StealthBravo** · 08-27-2009, 09:45 AM

Wow.

9k?

**Raptors** · 08-27-2009, 09:48 AM

lol oh wow

**jerrykid323** · 08-27-2009, 10:03 AM

Holy crap , not 50, 100, or even 1000, 9000 iPods greedy bastard.

**lom51** · 08-27-2009, 10:27 AM

i like it how your all commenting on the amount of ipods he nabbed, insted of the $650k he owes apple, he's gona be paying that the rest of his life

**Nukie** · 08-27-2009, 10:30 AM

You would think that after the first 1,000 or so, Apple would have caught on. Doh!

**malekebraheem** · 08-27-2009, 10:41 AM

if he hadn't got caught, he would've gone up to 9,000,000... terrific...

**D to the M** · 08-27-2009, 10:48 AM

Moron

**meep** · 08-27-2009, 10:54 AM

it's over 9000!!!

**tudtran** · 08-27-2009, 11:06 AM

I know is wrong. 9000 ipod, That's amazing.

**Chase817** · 08-27-2009, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by meep

it's over 9000!!!

**Neo-Tech** · 08-27-2009, 11:12 AM

Old news. Maybe you should have posted about the G5 Mac child porn :-P

**redmagic** · 08-27-2009, 11:13 AM

Omg !!!

How can he do that ????

**shabz_de_don** · 08-27-2009, 11:14 AM

ouch!!!!... 9000, wat a idiot !!!!

**kagehoshi** · 08-27-2009, 11:35 AM

$650k, that's nothing. If you divide it by the number of iPods he has stolen, that's only around $72 per iPod. Basically, he was just asked to reimburse the exact retail price of all the iPods he's stolen. Thus why the article says the court "showed leniency".

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