Police Capture iPad Thief Who Ripped Off Man’s Finger

A thug who ripped off a man’s finger during a brazen daylight iPad heist is in police custody.

Brandon D. Smith, 20, was arrested during a routine traffic stop early Saturday. Police say Smith was one of two men who stalked the victim, 59-year-old Bill Jordan, after he purchased a $500 iPad from the Apple store at the Cherry Creek mall in Denver, Colorado on April 15th.

Mall surveillance video shows the two thieves following Jordan as he walked down a flight of stairs holding a white plastic bag with its knotted cord wrapped around his fingers. Jordan said he wound the bag’s cord around his fingers as a precaution so he wouldn’t drop the pricey machine.

The video shows Jordan leaving the mall through an exit to a parking deck when Smith quickly walks up behind him, snatches the bag and runs off. As Smith yanked the bag, the cord tightened on Jordan’s pinky finger ripping the tip of his finger off along with the tendons, ligaments and muscle, leaving only the exposed bone.

A surgeon later amputated part of Jordan’s pinky finger. Smith is being held in the Denver County jail on charges of robbery and second-degree assault.

Thanks to tips called in from the public, Denver police already knew who they were looking for when they rolled up on Smith’s car at 1:14 am Saturday. His mother must be so proud of him.

birdofbeauty09

OMG! I feel so sorry for Mr. Jordan. I can’t believe this fool would rob someone for a damn iPad. It’s not that serious. I remember my brother telling me that when the new Madden games come out that people actually wait for someone to buy one and then rob them for it! All I can say is wow…

BTW, the robber looks “touched” like he’s not playing with a full-deck. #thatisall
starr2910

that is madness..losing ur dang finger over some electronic device..negro probably wasn’t even gonna use it..he was gonna sell it, I bet..

anyone try and take my $500 ish, i’m goin street fighter on that a.s.s! who knows how long that man saved up his money to buy it..smfh..
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

I am still stuck on the homeless man who died on a public sidewalk after coming to aid of a woman being attacked. He was stabbed and bystanders (including the victim) allowed him to bleed to death without calling the police. I don’t know who is more evil – the killer or the bystanders.
OutsidetheBox

“His mother must be so proud of him.”

Criminals are criminals. People will always steal.
Fuck.ed up that man lost his finger though. Surely, thats a little more than assault!

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW IS WHY YOU ALWAYS BLAME MOTHERS? For you to be a woman… SMH.
bigtyme

this is messed up! on another note…they were talking about these on oprah last week…i am thinking about buying one…does anyone have one?
SangriaSugar

This is messed up and yes he does look “touched”
Anna

3attorneymom Says:

I am still stuck on the homeless man who died on a public sidewalk after coming to aid of a woman being attacked. He was stabbed and bystanders (including the victim) allowed him to bleed to death without calling the police. I don’t know who is more evil – the killer or the bystanders.
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That is sad. I did read that 3 diff 911 calls came in to aid this man but all gave the wrong address. It’s not that some did not try to help,(which most do just pass by like your’re just a piece of trash), some could only take the task of calling our 911 service. We have been paying taxes(on our cell phones) (since 9/11) these tax dollars were to be used to make it automatically known the location of the incoming cell call.
GottaBigOne

You know being African-American It really Shames me when one of our own does stuff like this!
(The suspect could have done the same thing to one of our loved ones or friends).
Thank Goodness for the Public’s help and Modern Technology to Ferret Out these criminally-inclined hoodlums!!!

GBO
http://myspace.com/dannyblaq dblaq

Well this is the world we live in now. We created and continue to contribute. Seems like every year we get worse and worse because we stop having compassion and are selfish. As long as it doesn’t directly affect us we don’t care, we may voice our opinion on a blog but that is about it
Sunkissed404

I’m soooo sick of it…I’m sick of these instances happening and I’m sick of seeing the face of young men who look like they could be any cousin or brother of mine… Thank God he didn’t kill the man. One day, hopefully he’ll look back on this instance and shake his own head in shame.. Get.It.Together!! :mad1:
http://dahoneyhive.blogspot.com ryand91

That is a damn shame, although the Apple store where I brought my iPad from is in a good area of Greensboro, I put the bag for my iPad in my bookbag and kept it moving, so I wouldn’t draw any unncessary attention to myself. But wow, that is terrible, people would rather take your stuff that you worked so hard and deligently to have, than work for their own. Lazy good for nothings.
ladyloca

I hate thugs. Go out and get yourself a J.O.B. so you can get your own iPad! He probably wasn’t even going to use it, like some people said.
Anna

ladyloca Says:

I hate thugs. Go out and get yourself a J.O.B. so you can get your own iPad! He probably wasn’t even going to use it, like some people said.
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We know he was not going to use it for himself. It was going to go dirt cheat, or if the thug knows how to even use a compuer he would have sold in online for more. I am glad that he got caught. This man was stalked for his Ipad and lost apart of his finger. The thug should be charged with more than theft/mugging, but also stalking. What he did was “premeditated”.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

http://charactercorner.blogspot.com/2010/04/homeless-samaritan-dies-while.html
http://twitter.com/LaydeeJustice LadyJustice *\o/*

omg how awful. glad hes off the street now
Ashley

omg, I feel so bad for that man.
allwrightyden

Wow thats crazy! Of course ol’ boy wasn’t going to use it, he probably doesn’t even know HOW to use it. He was just going to sell it on the streets like someone already said. It’s not right when you work hard to pay bills and buy whatever you want to buy and someone feels they have the right to just take yo chit.

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