UNION SQUARE — An art-supply store employee who stole an iPhone from a customer was busted after using it to take a selfie that automatically uploaded to the victim's iCloud account, police said.
The 27-year-old staffer at A.I. Friedman, an art-supply store on West 18th Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue, swiped the iPhone on Dec. 10, after the customer briefly left it on a shelf, according to a police report.
That night, the victim used her phone-locating tool to track the phone to an address on Hart Street between Tompkins and Throop avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. Later that evening, the suspected thief took a selfie, which automatically uploaded to the victim’s cloud storage, according to a police report.
Officers caught up with the thief back at the store, arrested her on charges of possession of stolen property and issued her a desk appearance ticket, according to police. The defendant's name was not released by police.
An employee of the store declined to comment on the arrest.
