Apple iPhones are Metro thieves’ favorite target: The devices accounted for 67 percent of the items snatched and pickpocketed on the transit system in the first three months of the year.

Nearly 100 Apple iPhones were stolen on Metro trains and buses from January to March out of a total of 144 devices, even as the transit agency battles a surge in more dangerous armed and violent robberies, Metro noted in a new crime report.

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