A Southern California girl fed up together with her packages getting stolen out of her put up workplace field despatched an Apple AirTag to the tackle and cleverly tracked down the suspected thief, police mentioned.

The girl had had a number of objects stolen from her mailbox on the Los Alamos Submit Workplace already when she considered the thought, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Tuesday. Apple’s $29 AirTags have grow to be common objects since their 2021 launch, serving to customers preserve tabs on the placement of something from their misplaced keys to wallets and baggage.

On Monday morning, sheriff’s deputies had been known as to the put up workplace the place the lady instructed officers her mail had been stolen once more — together with the bundle with the AirTag.

Legislation enforcement tracked the AirTag to a block in Santa Maria, about 16 miles (26 kilometers) from the put up workplace and arrested two suspects — a 27-year-old girl from Santa Maria and a 37-year-old man from Riverside.

They situated the bundle with the AirTag among the many sufferer’s mail, in addition to objects believed to have been stolen from greater than a dozen different individuals. The girl declined to be recognized, the sheriff’s division mentioned.

The 2 suspects had been booked in jail on expenses of possession of checks with intent to commit fraud, conspiracy, and identification and bank card theft. The 37-year-old was additionally booked on a housebreaking cost and several other different theft warrants from Riverside County.

The sheriff’s division counseled the mail theft sufferer for contacting legislation enforcement so they might apprehend the suspects moderately than trying to contact them on her personal.