An Arlington woman says that a new
iPad she thought she had bought at a
great price turned out to be a fake. Jalonta Freeman said she bought the
item from a stranger who
approached her at a gas station near
Highway 360 and Green Oaks. "He pulled up beside us, and he was
like, 'Hey, I've got some iPads and
stuff, and I've got some laptops if you
all are interested in buying,'" she said
Wednesday. He offered to sell a brand-new iPad
worth $800 for just $200, Freeman
said. With Christmas coming up, she and
her family thought it sounded too
good to pass up. They gave him the
cash, and he quickly drove off, she
said. New iPads begin at $399 for Wi-Fi-
only models. The iPad 2 that connects
to cellular networks retails for $529. The recently announced iPads with
retina display start at $499 for the Wi-
Fi models. The cellular models range
in price from $629 to $829 and will
be available to ship in mid-November. When Freeman's sister opened the
package, it turned out to be a mirror
about the size as the tablet. "If you turn it on the back, it actually
looks like an Apple iPad," Freeman
said. "And when you turn it to the
front, it has the prices and stuff." It even had an Apple logo stuck on it. "That's so messed up," Freeman said.
"That's so wrong. I would never do
anybody like that. Get a job." Freeman said she became angry
when she realized she had been
conned. "I just started cussing," she said. "I
was upset. Anybody would be upset
if you found out you just got
scammed, you know what I'm
saying? You just lost $200." Freeman reported the crime to
Arlington police, but she never got a
license plate number and she admits
that investigators have little to go on. She said she now feels stupid but has
learned an important lesson. "Don't buy nothing on the streets
from nobody," she said. Arlington police spokeswoman Tiara
Richard said she had not heard of any
similar incidents but added these
kinds of crimes always increase in the
weeks before Christmas. Last year, Grand Prairie police warned
North Texas about groups of people who were selling fake iPads and
MacBooks out of their cars for several hundred dollars. Police then said that
investigators knew of more than a dozen incidents. Police in other states, including
Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, reported similar incidents last year.
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