United States Department of Justice announced that it has gained access on their own an iPhone phone linked to a drug trafficking case and thus leaving the issue by trying to get Apple will help unlock the device.
The US Justice filed a brief before a judge in Brooklyn (New York) that had Efe access and where informed that removes the court petition because "no longer needs the help of Apple" to be achieved by other means password phone access.
"Yesterday afternoon, an individual provided the password for the iPhone in question in this case. The government introduced the key and gained access to the iPhone. Therefore, the government no longer needs the help of Apple and withdraws its application," he said delivered today written to the judge.
So far, the US government required through the Apple Justice facilitate unlocking the phone, what the company apple bite refused.
In late March, the government ended another high-profile legal battle with Apple to gain access on their own the phone used by the author of a shooting in the Californian city of San Bernardino last December, in which 14 people were killed and it is investigated as terrorism.
The method used to access the iPhone San Bernardino, however, does not work on other models like the Brooklyn case.
Last February, another New York judge refused to force Apple to unlock the phone, a decision was appealed by the authorities.
The main accused in that case of New York, Jung Feng, was arrested in the district of Queens on June 11, 2014 by conspiring with four others to smuggle methamphetamines.
In the police inquiries the authorities seized several items, including an iPhone 5s, and investigations resulted a year later in the request to be allowed to recover information from that and other mobile phones.
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