Woman catches thieves with Apple airtags.

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A California woman whose mail was recently stolen used technology as bait to track down the thieves, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says.

Authorities in Los Alamos arrested two suspects on Monday with the help of an Apple AirTag locator device the woman had mailed to herself, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

Deputies responded that morning to a report of a mail theft that had just happened at the local post office. When they arrived, they learned the woman recently had mail stolen, so she decided to send herself a package with the tracking device inside, according to the release.

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She became a repeat mail theft victim on Monday – but this time, she was able to track the thieves thanks to the AirTag, authorities said.

The devices work by sending out a Bluetooth signal that nearby devices in Apple’s Find My network can detect, according to Apple. The AirTag sends its location to a user’s iCloud, allowing them to see where it is on the Find My map.

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“It is important to note that the victim did not attempt to contact the suspects on her own,” the sheriff’s office said in the release.

The suspected thieves were located in nearby Santa Maria, California, with the victim’s mail – including the package containing the AirTag – and other items authorities believe were stolen from more than a dozen victims, according to the sheriff’s office.

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