Fast and Furious: Team of five pull off half million iPhone heist

Apple’s iPhones are still one of the best selling phones despite receiving too many breaking changes in the last couple of years. But they are also the top target for thieves worldwide.

A group of five Romanians knows this very well, as they set up a Hollywood style heist which involved tailgating a moving truck and jumping on its bonnet, only to steal some iPhones which were then supposed to be sold on the black market.

In terms of truth telling, the five Romanians stole some $590,000 worth of iPhones. The only problem was that the police tracked them down and arrested all five of them, with the group now set to appear before a judge.

The whole theft took place on July 24 on the A73 motorway in the Netherlands, according to the BBC. One of the thieves has reportedly climbed onto the bonnet of a modified van using an anti-slip mat before eventually jumping on the moving truck. Once he broke in, he started throwing iPhone boxes to the other men through the van’s roof.

"The truck was taking its freight from A to B and did not stop. Even so [the phones] were gone. So it must have happened that way. And now we finally have the evidence, with the van and the loot,” Police spokesman Ed Kraszewski was quoted as saying.

The five men were arrested on Saturday, and many of the stolen iPhones were found at their homes, though it’s not yet clear if any units were sold in the meantime or not.