The whole saga is pretty sickening from all ends. The cops should've never let Apple employees search his home and the cops should've identified these people searching his home as not being cops. This guy has at least some relation to the theft because they tracked it back to his house. If he didn't take it then he most likely knows who did.
Not so, that is not known yet. Is the civilian GPS resolution sufficient to hit exactly one house? Does it ever give errors? How long was the signal at this house? When? When did the signal stop transmitting? Has anyone been to his house within the last week? How about in the general area? Meter readers? Deliverymen? Sure, he was at the business where the Apple employee got drunk and left the phone behind. Just like thousands of other people in that time frame, many of which undoubtedly are from his neighborhood or passed through at some point.
The story that you're creating only exists in movies. Only someone as devious as Keyser Söze would do that.
You have absolutely no proof of that. If you do please link to it. Statements from Apple goons aren't evidence. I could state that you are a terrorist pedophile so we should search your house for child porn and bombs. That doesn't make you one unless there is actual evidence shown to a judge in order to get a search warrant.
I'm not arguing this on a legal basis. I will leave this up to the courts. I grew up on the streets and, while I may not have stolen something in my youth, I can tell you I would've been the guy to tell him to shut the phone off.
There is this belief among many of the absolute of good and evil. Most times this is not the case. It's always complicated and not always clear.
If you disagree, please explain the reason why anyone was there in the first place.