Just a few hours later after in the iPhone 5 prototype hunt, San Francisco police . SFPD says four of its officers accompanied in plainclothes two Apple investigators in the unusual search, led by Apple’s GPS trace on the device. The officers apparently never entered the man’s house, while Apple’s security officials scoured the 22-year-old man’s house and computer for any trace of the lost iPhone 5.

Still doubt what unreleased iPhone Apple was desperately seeking? has pieced it together -- even SFPD named the Word document statement on the search "iphone5.doc." What’s unclear is whether Apple managed to find the lost iPhone 5 prototype. CNet says the prototype might have been sold on Craigslist for a mere $200 (last year’s iPhone prototype finder got $5000 for the phone, ).

The news of a second broke earlier this week. first reported the device went missing at a San Francisco bar in July; two days later, Apple investigators and police officers searched the house of a young man who denied ever possessing such a device. They did not find the phone and even reportedly tried to offer the man cash, no questions asked, in exchange for its recovery.

Further details on the mysterious iPhone prototype search came from , which identified the young man whose house was searched. But in a , he claimed the four men and two women who came to his home searching for the lost phone were impersonators -- while San Francisco police said the department had no records of such an incident involving its officers. The man later acknowledged only Apple reps entered his home.