Lost AirPods recovery adds a feather to Jhelum police cap

ISLAMABAD: In Jhelum, the police launched a search for the AirPods that a British social media influencer had lost in Dubai a year ago. He left them in a hotel he had stayed and has since been looking out for them. Miles Routledge, better known as Lord Miles, activated the Lost Mode on his iPhone for the missing AirPods to monitor and track their use as and when made anywhere.

The signal revealed that they had been flown from Dubai to Pakistan in Kala Gujran, a union council right on the outskirts of Jhelum city. The devices occasionally pinged from near a local restaurant, as their location indicated. With no direct contacts in Pakistan, Miles resorted to social media, posting location updates and tagging the Jhelum Police.

How to locate the user was a daunting task. Tariq Aziz Sindhu, the District Police Officer of Jhelum, ordered the police to narrow down the households with ties to Dubai. It turned out that four men in the area work in Dubai and one of them was in Pakistan to visit his family. The police summoned him to ask about the AirPods and he answered in affirmative but claimed he had purchased them from an Indian in Dubai, unaware they were a stolen asset. Satisfied with the explanation, the police recovered the devices.

Then Miles was contacted to ask whether he would opt to receive them in person by traveling to Pakistan or would share a mailing address for the shipment.

He chose to visit and film the recovery, an intention he also expr