Feds say iPod repairman stole 9,000 Shuffles from Apple

According to court documents filed Wednesday, Nicholas Woodhams of Kalamazoo, Mich., squeezed 9,075 iPod Shuffles out of Apple by entering real serial numbers on a company site that provides users with replacement iPods when theirs fail under warranty. He then turned the purloined iPods into cash by selling thousands of them for $49 each.

Woodhams ran an iPod repair business under the names iPod Mechanic, iMechanic and Pod Tradeup, operating Web sites under the first pair of names, the two-count complaint read. As of Friday, those sites were offline.