US teens charged with selling iPhone boxes filled with Play-Doh


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 29 Jul 2015

Doh!: A few teenagers have been busted for trying to make some dough out of iPhone boxes filled with Play Doh. Photo: AFP

DETROIT: Three Detroit-area teenagers have been charged with selling fake new Apple iPhones to a local business that were made of Play-Doh modelling compound, police said. 

The three male teenagers, plus a fourth who has not been charged but remains under investigation, sold a Metro PCS store owner in Auburn Hills, outside Detroit, what appeared to be brand new iPhones still in the box and sealed with factory plastic, the Auburn Hills Police Department said. 

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