Did Apple goons pretend to be SFPD and break into a guy's house?

UPDATE: Apparently the SFPD were involved in the search, accompanying Apple security people. SF Weekly has updated its story to include that information. Thanks to commenters who pointed this out.

It looks that way from this story in SF Weekly. A guy in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco says six people showed up at his door flashing badges and claiming to be SFPD and wanting to search the premises for an iPhone 5 prototype that was lost in a bar. (Allow me to digress: WTF, Apple? Can you idiots not learn to hang on to your super-valuable prototypes?) The guy let them search his place. They found nothing. One goon left a phone number. When SF Weekly called the number they reached an Apple security officer. Soon after, that guy's LinkedIn page mysteriously vanished.

So, yeah. Stay classy, Apple.

Best part of all this for me were the comments from Apple fanboys who are, of course, skeptical.

One says that there's no proof that this happened except for the word of one guy in Bernal Heights who might be making the whole thing up.

Another suggests that the goons might not have been from Apple but rather from one of Apple's competitors.

Another thinks it's all a hoax.

Ain't it grand how love can be so blind?