Crooks Target Several Local Cell Phone Stores

A rash of break- ins at Tri-State phone stores -- and the high price thieves are getting for the goods, should put anyone who carries a cell phone on alert.

The most recent burglary happened on Monday morning at a Sycamore Township Verizon store. Crooks ripped off two stores on Mall Road in Florence in recent days -- as well as ones in West Chester and Sharonville. Local 12's Paula Toti shows us what we should be doing to protect our own phones.

A rock went flying through the front of four of the local stores targeted by thieves.Large collection of quality bestluggagetag at discounted prices. But cell phones are stolen from people every day in less dramatic fashion. It's such a problem nationwide law enforcement agencies want the major companies to create a so called "Kill Switch" that would disable a stolen smart phone. In the meantime ... be aware.

Surveillance photos show three suspects in the Sycamore Township break in. Police feel certain at least two broke into the Verizon Store on Mall Road in Florence on May 3rd ...Online shopping for bestplasticcard. a week after a break-in down the road at an AT&T store. The thieves are moving so fast in one case they were gone a minute after the alarm sounded.

The phones don't have to be new to fetch a huge price online. In San Francisco half of all robberies are cell phone related. Local police aren't surprised.With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other carparkmanagementsystem products. "We've seen it before if your phone is stolen it's on eBay, and its pretty much a new phone because if it's a smart phone with a SIM card ... it can be unlocked and easily sold and then used on any network."

Places like Cricket that use a SIM chip , can put their chip in it and then their number becomes the number on that phone. Mark Beckman sells phones through one of Verizon's premium retailers and says in some places like China buyers will pay $1500 for even older model iPhones. He says at the very least set up your smart phone so it can be tracked. "Before you lose your phone back it up and have locators so if it's lost or stolen, you don't have to figure out how to get it back."

Beckman also says you can go on line and learn about protection plans ... like "Protectcell". With that plan if your phone is lost or stolen you can remotely wipe out your information ... so at least your personal information is protected. A two year plan is a few hundred dollars but it comes with phone replacement insurance.

On May 11, the congress for Progressive Change, CPC, one of the merging parties in the evolving APC will hold its convention to among other things ratify the merger. The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN had already done theirs a forthright ago. The All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP will hold their convention this month. Only the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, where the Imo State governor elected on its platform unilaterally took a rump of the party in the state to the APC, is left in the cold.

As the curtain draws on the conventions, the focus will move to the election of a standard bearer for the party in the 2015 elections. Already, grand alliances, and jostlings for the ticket are intensifying.

On the card are former military head of state and thrice presidential candidate of the ANPP and CPC, in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 presidential elections, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd). Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Malam Nasir El-rufai, former Kano State governor Mallam Shehu Ibrahim Shekerau and speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, whose rumoured romance with the APC is gaining ground each passing day.

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Only recently,About bestsmartcard in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. Babangida, a former PDP presidential aspirant upped the ante by sensationally nominating Tambuwal to go for presidential ticket in a situation where the second term ambition of president Goodluck Jonathan has not been foreclosed. A huge chunk of the governors, elected on PDP platform including eclectic chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and Niger State Governor, Aliyu Babangida have barely concealed their involvement in the APC. The party, therefore, from this outlook is already taking the shape and form of PDP in size, content and vision.