Cops reportedly investigating case of lost iPhone 4G

If you're the guy who sold Gizmodo the lost iPhone 4G prototype that made headlines this week, now might be a good time to lawyer up.

CNET has a law enforcement source who claims that Silicon Valley police are looking into the case of Apple's lost iPhone 4G prototype, which was reportedly left on a barstool in Redwood City by an Apple software engineer who'd been field-testing the ultra-top-secret device.

The prototype, as we all know by now, eventually wound up in the hands of another patron at the bar, who ended up selling it to Gizmodo for a tidy $5,000. Gizmodo's subsequent posts on the thoroughly poked and prodded iPhone made a gigantic splash this week, racking up millions of hits. Gizmodo ultimately gave the iPhone back after Apple sent a formal request for the return of its lost property.

Investigators are looking at "whether sufficient evidence exists to file criminal charges," according to CNET. Continue: http://asurl.net/elU