More Than $60,000 Worth of Personal Items Stolen From Steve Jobs’ California Home
- Posted on August 14, 2012 at 1:51pm by
Erica Ritz
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More than $60,000 worth of computers and other personal items have been stolen from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs, the Associated Press related Tuesday.
The high-profile robbery took place in mid-July, but was seemingly kept from the public until recently.
35-year-old Kariem McFarlin of Alameda has been arrested and charged, and remains in jail with a $500,000 bail pending an Aug. 20 court hearing. He faces charges of residential burglary and selling stolen property.
Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda allegedly robbed the late Steve Jobs' home. (Photo: Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)
Santa Clara County prosecutor Tom Flattery won’t say if the items taken from the Palo Alto home on July 17 belonged to the Apple Inc. co-founder or another family member, but said McFarlin was likely unaware of the home’s significance.
“The best we can tell is it was totally random,” Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Tom Flattery assured the papers.
Though Jobs’ family still lives in the home, they left for a brief time in July for renovation work and a temporary construction barrier reportedly surrounded the house. It is possible the opportunistic thief simply saw a nice home with no one inside.
This file photo shows Steve Jobs' home in 2011. (Photo: AP)
The San Jose Mercury News relates:
Bay Area cities have seen double-digit jumps in burglaries during the first half of the year. Police in Palo Alto attributed the city’s 63 percent increase to unlocked doors and windows. A “Lock It or Lose It” campaign launched earlier this year seeks to change that behavior.
The co-founder of Apple Inc. died last year at the age of 56.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Flattery said McFarlin could face a maximum prison sentence of seven years and eight months, including a one-year enhancement for “excessive taking of property.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WashingtonIsMyHero
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:36amLet’s get a trust fund started to help the Jobs family.
Report Post »jwhited
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:04pmOh boy, I was wondering if the comments were going to be based around Jobs being a huge liberal, or the burglar being black. Good to see you’re all still so predictable.
Report Post »WashingtonIsMyHero
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:33amYou’re not forced to come here.
Report Post »jwhited
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:42pmThanks for the tip.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 7:07pmAlas! Head coward Eric Holder only prosecutes White people. So, I’m sure this guy will just get a slap on the wrist and be on his way.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 7:54pmAlas! You clearly don’t understand how criminal law works. This is a state crime so not punishable by Eric Holder who oversees federal law.
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 6:50pmObviously the arrest was random racism. Holder needs to get his DoJ on this to stop this obvious racism! I mean Steve Jobs is dead so shouldn’t the poor be able to even the playing field.
Report Post »GrumpyCat
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:36pmShoot a few burglars in the act and this sort of thing will come to a screeching halt.
Report Post »forthepeople
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:03pmSince the dawn of history the black man has owned the continent of Africa – rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet and yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light.
Report Post »His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled. A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrowhead worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour. In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud.
With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail.” — Charles Darwin
forthepeople
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:01pmAnimals and there behavior !
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:39pmOh, the robber is black, what a surprise it was seeing that!
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 7:56pmWhat a surprise indeed! As we all know, only black people commit crimes. Or, that is what the stories on TheBlaze would have you believe since the only crimes reported here are those committed by non-whites. Thus, because TheBlaze doesn’t report that crimes are committed by whites, there are no white criminals.
Report Post »1ontheright
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 4:29pm@Godfather.1 – educate yourself; who you gonna believe? Your lieberal / progressive / demwit friends, or your own lie’n eyes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
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