When Gizmodo scribe Jason Chen got his hands on the new, unannounced iPhone 4 last year, the cops would up busting down his door.

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Jason Chen, the author of the original post, returned home from dinner in Fremont, California, a few days later, to find that his door had been busted open.

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The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized.

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