Pinoy airline engineer in UAE nabbed for taking iPad left by passenger

A Filipino airline engineer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who found and kept for himself an iPad tablet left in an airplane by an Indian trader was arrested after being tracked by a cloud-based application installed in the gadget.   According to a report of the news site Gulf News on Monday, the engineer pleaded guilty to theft when he faced the court on Sunday.   The Filipino pleaded guilty and submitted to the court a written waiver from the businessman, the report said.   "(The Filipino) admitted during questioning that when he went to check the aircraft after the flight, he found the iPad and took it," the policeman who interrogated the Filipino told the court.   The businessman's iPad bears a serial number.   The Indian businessman who used an iCloud app — Apple's cloud-based storage service — learned that the Filipino had changed his login details to use the stolen iPad.   The court is expected to issue a verdict on the case on May 22.   The investigation showed the Indian trader made a one-day trip to Dubai and contacted the airline's lost-and-found section after discovering his iPad was missing. At that time, the Indian did not yet know the identity of the person who took his iPad. After a few days, the Indian's wife informed the airline that her husband's iCloud account showed that the Filipino had changed the owner's username to log into the iPad, the report said. The wife said they discovered the Filipino's real identity based on his Facebook account. - VVP, GMA News