Crime & Safety
Crafty Kid Steals Good Samaritan's iPhone
Kid gives sob story about being lost and desire to call mom.
A Reynoldstown woman's act of kindness was rewarded with a stolen iPhone following a ruse by a pre-teen who played on her sympathies.
The victim, who issued a warning to Reynoldstown and Inman Park residents regarding the incident, said she was one her way home from the Inman Park/Reynoldstown MARTA station when a little boy, about 11 years old, began a sob story about being lost.
He told her he was looking for the Edgewood/Candler Park station and wanted to call his mother.
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She dialed a number that he gave her, handed him her iPhone 4 and he took off running toward Moreland Avenue.
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