The chaos was caused by dozens of homeless people recruited from a downtown homeless shelter to queue and buy in bulk iPhones but were allegedly not paid by the man who hired them, said Pasadena police Lt. Jason Clawson.
The police had to break up fights and calm hundreds of customers who have camped in front of the Apple store to be the first to buy the new iPhones. Dominoe Moody, one of the homeless man who was victimised by the recruiter, said they were fetched by a van from a shelter 10 miles from Pasadena and promised $40 payment for queuing and buying an iPhone. However, after he turned over the gadget to the recruiter, he was whisked away by police.
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