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Hey Siri, find me the nearest iPhone smuggling ring!
That may or may not have been the prompt when a person tracked his stolen iPhone through the Find My iPhone app to a warehouse of London's Heathrow Airport, ending up uncovering what police have called UK's largest-ever smartphone theft ring, reports Apple Insider.
The United Kingdom's Metropolitan Police, in a recent social media post, has explained how this was the start of a sting operation that would eventually lead to the dismantling of an international smuggling ring.
"It was actually on Christmas Eve and a victim electronically tracked their stolen iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow