A burglar from Sheffield named Callum Denton was caught after Apple AirPods he had stolen were tracked to a shop in the city, where he had gone to try to sell them. The case highlights how location-tracking features built into modern devices can help police identify and locate suspects following a theft.

The full details of the case could not be retrieved, as the article content did not load beyond the headline, so figures such as any sentence handed down, the date of the offence or further specifics of the investigation are not available here. Based on the headline alone, the stolen AirPods' tracking capability led investigators to the shop where Denton attempted to sell them, which appears to have been central to his arrest.