--- title: Woman Pulls Steak Knife and Steals One iPhone From Store description: A woman stole one iPhone 6 from a Boost Mobile store after browsing for nearly an hour, police say. canonical: https://time.com/5212652/woman-steals-iphone-from-boost-mobile/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-23T15:24:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:35.754Z og:title: Woman Steals One iPhone From the Phone Store With a Knife og:description: After walking around for nearly an hour, she pulled out a steak knife og:url: https://time.com/5212652/woman-steals-iphone-from-boost-mobile/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd535a2e43dc3a3de/6988f6a5fb4eac0056895208/apple-iphone-6-battery-life-software-slowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Various og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Steals One iPhone From the Phone Store With a Knife twitter:description: After walking around for nearly an hour, she pulled out a steak knife twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd535a2e43dc3a3de/6988f6a5fb4eac0056895208/apple-iphone-6-battery-life-software-slowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman With Steak Knife Steals One iPhone After Browsing Phone Store for Nearly an Hour > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 23, 2018 3:24 PM UTC  Person Holding Apple iPhone 6 Person Holding Apple iPhone 6 Steve Meddle—REX/Shutterstock by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 23, 2018 3:24 PM UTC Let us recognize some very [bizarre iPhone news](http://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/) today involving a woman using a steak knife to rob a phone store of exactly one cell phone. Police are trying to find a woman they say robbed a Boost Mobile in Gwinnett County, Georgia, recently, the [_Atlanta-Journal Constitution_](https://www.ajc.com/news/local/cops-woman-robs-gwinnett-cell-phone-store-using-steak-knife/kP3EnEsDSNwZQnmmtWEiLN/) reports. But before she made away with her [Apple smartphone](http://time.com/5199653/apple-wwdc-2018-ios-12/) of choice, she browsed around a bit. According to police, the woman waltzed into the cell phone store in the afternoon on March 18 and walked around the store for nearly an hour. That’s when she asked a clerk to check out the iPhone 6. And as the salesperson took the phone out, she pulled out a steak knife and demanded the phone. 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