ST JOHN’S, Antigua – “I am begging anybody who is offered a computer or a broken phone to buy, call the police. If you do that, you can help the police solve this case or some other case.”
That’s the plea of popular cellular phone repairman Bernhard “Superman” Folss, whose business was burglarised last week.
The thieves, who broke a lock and cut a grill to enter the business, made off with over 100 cellular phones, 10 laptops, a surveillance recorder and other electronic devices.
“It is a big problem and I hope they call the Antigua criminal hotline (800 TIPS) and give the police tips on the phones stolen,” Folss lamented.
“There are about 100 phones from people and most of them are damaged and broken, so they are useless, but I am responsible for them and now I have to negotiate how much I have to give them for their phone.”
He said he has had to pay out close to $3,000 since the theft which occurred between 7:30 pm Wednesday and 8 am Thursday.
“I beg you please help stop this wickedness. Call the police line and just say what you want and there’s no trace on it and help me keep my business, my two workers and my two business partners,” Folss said. “It is wickedness.”
Apart from stealing tools and work equipment, the thieves disconnected Folss’ Internet, telephone, electricity, surveillance cameras and alarms.
This is the third time the entrepreneur has been targeted but his losses have never been this significant.
I’m sorry to hear about this issue but, if the thieves dosen’t have maket for their products, they won’t steal……….So superman you need to check phone repair business just as yours! Since you have such a progessive business, you do you 100 unrepaired phones and, 10 broken laptops? clearly this shows one or the other…you don’t know how to repair the phones and laptops but you still took ppl money and that’s wrong….you did not loose all these stuff that you menioned were missing….it might be someone who you robbed and did not do a good job for them or the thieves are are to do a better job than you so they will repair the stolen stuffs and sell them….
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Every phone has an IMEI number if folks would just record their numbers and notify the carriers then the a stolen phone would be useless and there would be no more phone left. When you buy a phone the cell provider records the number with the name of the purchaser so that information should be available to police.
It really is a simple program the cell providers have the ability to see who is using a phone and can find it by which tower it is connecting to.
Stolen PCs and Laptops can be found in a similar fashion by the different service providers.
I really don’t know why this is so difficult. All these providers make such a big deal about recording your cell phone information and for what end?
I’m not sure why this phone unlocking is still a big deal, if you own the phone the seller should unlock it or call the manufacturer. The locked phones is a thing countries that sell contracts use, and once the phone is fully paid for they have to unlock it free.
I never get a chance to have a phone that long the dog keeps burying them in the yard and I have to call it to dig it up before it rains.
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@ Endurance….Crime is everywhere and Antigua does not have more crime per capita than everywhere in the world. I guess his business is not insured why he is making this plea. Knowing of the cases I say woe unto those who lost phones because he will do his best to give you nothing or next to nothing for your loss.
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‘wickedness’ you say. Well Karma is a b…. I took my iphone running 5.0 OS to be unlocked. SUPERMAN rolled back my phone 3 generations and charged me $100.00. When I tried to call him to talk to him about it he refused to answer all of my calls. I was able to go online and upgrade my phone back to 5.0 OS and unlock it all for FREE. Now you cry ‘WICKEDNESS’ Give me a break. Pay back what you owe. Thief from thief mek GOD laugh!!!
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What the hell is going on in antigua? and who are the culprits committing these crimes? for such a tiny place, antigua is way out of the loop. The people need to get active in helping law inforcement.
Antigua has become a lawless little island and no direction. An all out assault should be carried out on those thugs and criminals and show no mercy. MR. Cort is a big joke. Let’s get someone else who will solve this problem and bring antigua back to what we are accustum to.
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