Man who found-andsold-missing iPhone unmasked

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Up until now, Hogan's identity has been a mystery to the public, but the 21-year-old college student (or at least, he was a college student as of 2008) may have sensed that he was in trouble after all the hoopla over Gizmodo's gigantic iPhone scoop last week and the subsequent fallout, including a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house by San Mateo sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant....

No one has been charged yet in the case of the lost iPhone, but a deputy district attorney for San Mateo County tells Wired that Hogan is "very definitely ... being looked at as a suspect in theft." (In California, finding a piece of lost property isn't a case of "finders keepers"; if you find a lost item and keep it without making "reasonable" efforts to find the real owner, you could be charged with a crime.)

Wait, what!? You can get a search warrant to search someones house over a piece of lost property? Without being arrested over a particular crime and with out being charged with anything? Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly. Perhaps someone from California can clear this up for me?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1874

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Errrr the phone was never sold.

Numerous attemps were made to contact apple to return the phone. They thought he was a nut job and blew him off.

Now there out to 'destory' gizmodo.