No, Apple did NOT break into some dude's house — the SFPD was involved too

Contrary to its earlier report, SF Weekly now reports that SFPD officers were involved in the search of a guy's house hoping to find a lost iPhone 5 prototype.

According to a police spokesman:

After conferring with Apple and the captain of the Ingleside police station, he has learned that plainclothes SFPD officers went with private Apple detectives to the home of Sergio Calderón, a 22-year-old resident of Bernal Heights. According to Dangerfield, the officers "did not go inside the house," but stood outside while the Apple employees scoured Calderón's home, car, and computer files for any trace of the lost iPhone 5. The phone was not found, and Calderón denies that he ever possessed it.

There appears to be some confusion about whether the officers involved filed reports on this, which may be why SFPD at first claimed not to have been involved.

At the least, the incident is sure to raise questions about the propriety of multiple SFPD officers helping private detectives conduct a search — which was never properly recorded, per standard police operating procedure — of somebody's home. "Apple came to us saying that they were looking for a lost item, and some plainclothes officers responded out to the house with them," Dangerfield said. "My understanding is that they stood outside." He added, "They just assisted Apple to the address."

Still seems weird.