> If he sold it for $5000, then he stole $5000 Simply not true. If I find your car and sell it to a chop shop for $300, then what was your car worth? If I paid

> If he sold it for $5000, then he stole $5000 Simply not true. If I find your car and sell it to a chop shop for $300, then what was your car worth? If I paid you back the $300, would we be even? You wouldn't want $300 back, you'd want to be "made whole." There simply is no way that Apple can be made whole in this situation. The genie is out of the bottle. Re: the criminal angle, there was no crime in finding the phone, and possibly none in taking it home. It seems possible that there was a crime in converting it to his own benefit instead of turning it into to Apple or the police. So far the DA seems to agree.