AirTag helps track more than R$5 million stolen from an armored vehicle

Two brothers were accused of robbing an ATM and an armored truck from Brinks in Chicago (USA) during Halloween last October. thieves managed to receive approximately US$1.1 million, or approximately R$5.4 million, at the current exchange rate..

However, they didn’t count that Brinks would track the money through an Apple AirTag tracker hidden in one of the stolen lots. According to recently released documents, the company has contacted federal investigators to say the label will “provide live updates on the device’s location.”

“About an hour passed before the burglary tracker showed up at the house,” the report says. The brothers were first charged with participating in this theft last December, but the case is pending before the US Attorney General’s Office.

For Doug Kouns, retired FBI agent and CEO of Veracity IIR, AirTags were created to retrieve lost items, but are increasingly used for this purpose.

“Maybe the owner of that branch of the company was protecting himself by randomly throwing an AirTag in every bag or trash can,” Kouns said, “and in this case it worked.”