In the rare occurrence that police actually looked into the case of a woman who had her phone stolen in London, it turned into the crumbs on a bread crumb trail which led to a huge organized crime effort.

The sirens quiet now, and the London Met. Area Police report that approximately 40% of all smartphones and other devices stolen in London were being shipped overseas by the same group of thieves that stole the woman’s phone.

Mobile phone snatching has become a huge problem in London of late, with some 80,000 such thefts occurring last year, many in popular areas such as Westminster and the West End.

The police have often received criticism for not doing enough either to prevent crime or attempt to recover stolen devices. But on the off chance that they did—when a woman provided the exa

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