SALINAS – An alert from an iPhone helped unravel an elaborate attempt at insurance fraud, Salinas police said.
The case began with a call last weekend from 23-year-old Angel Rios. He told police his red Ford F-150 truck had been stolen and that he had tracked it to an agricultural field near Boronda Road.
For officers, the story wasn’t adding up — because their department had already received a notification from Rios’ iPhone, apparently without his knowledge.
Police dispatch had gotten a crash alert, a feature on recent iPhone 14 models that alerts emergency personnel if the phone detects a severe car crash. The notification suggested to them that Rios had crashed his own truck, not that it had been…
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