An iPad reported missing by a passenger at the Salt Lake City International Airport on July 19 was traced by its owner to an address in Maricopa, according to the Salt Lake City Police Department.
A passenger traveling to Los Angeles, Brad Carter, reported that an iPad his 8-year-old daughter was playing with was stolen while the family was sitting at a table in Starbucks. A set of Pioneer headphones was with the iPad, which belonged to his wife, Carter said.
When Carter got to the gate with his daughter and 10-year-old son, he noticed his daughter didn’t have the iPad. He went back to Starbucks to find it, but none of the employees had seen it.
He reported the missing item to airport lost and found, but it was never turned in.
On July 21, Carter told Salt Lake City authorities he was able to track the iPad using an application called “find my iPad” and it was showing the device at a location in the 44000 block of West Adode Circle in Maricopa.
The officer asked Carter if he had contacted law enforcement in Maricopa, and he said no. Carter was advised to contact Maricopa law enforcement to possibly retrieve the item.
Salt Lake City police told Carter they would have the item listed in the NCIC (National Crime Information Center), a nationwide clearinghouse of electronic crime data.
Carter said he wasn’t sure whether he wanted to press charges; he just wanted the iPad back for his daughter.
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