Yesterday we reported a story by CNET about an iPhone prototype that was supposedly lost in late July. According to CNET, SFPD officers and Apple representatives went to a Bernal Heights district home to question a person suspected of being in possession of the iPhone prototype after tracing it to his location. The suspect denied having the iPhone prototype and nothing more apparently happened. Turns out the SFPD doesn't have a record of anyone from their organization participating in such an investigation.
A reporter with SFWeekly spoke with SFPD spokesperson Albie Esparza and this is what SFWeekly is reporting:"I talked to CNET" reporter Declan McCullagh, Esparza tells SF Weekly. "I don't know who his source is, but we don't have any record of any such an investigation going on at this point. Esparza says no records of the visit to Bernal Heights by police officers -- which should be recorded in documentation per standard SFPD procedures -- exist at either Mission or Ingleside stations, at least one of which would have handled the incident. (Ingleside station covers Bernal Heights, while the phone was allegedly lost at Cava 22, a bar in the Mission.) Police dispatchers also have no records of any incident involving the address where the search for the phone supposedly took place, Esparza says."Is it possible SFPD personnel participated in the investigation but did so "off the record"? Sure but that seems awfully unlikely. CNET got their story from a source so its possible the source simply doesn't have his/her facts straight.
