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Wired also said that it received an e-mail from a tipster in March who offered access to the device, but Wired did not follow-up after the tipster made "a thinly veiled request for money." Gizmodo was supposed to help return the phone to the owner or return it to the person who found the phone, the source said. "The idea wasn't to find out who was going to pay the most, it was, who's going to confirm this?" the source told Wired, adding that the $5,000 agreement with Gawker was for exclusivity only. The person then tried to contact the press to confirm its authenticity and locate the owner, the source said. The source said that the person who found the phone tried to notify Apple and the owner, but failed. The person said a roommate answered the door but wouldn't let them enter the room. "Someone came to house and knocked on his door," a source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told. Representatives of Apple may have also visited the person who found the famous iPhone, Wired magazine reported Tuesday night. Wired: Apple May Have Tracked Down Finder of the iPhone

Wagstaffe said the investigation is on hold until it's determined whether those protections apply in this case. In response to the police seizure, Gawker Media LLC, Gizmodo's parent company, wrote a letter invoking the California shield law for journalists and said the search warrant to enter Chen's home was invalid. Then they were referred to the Rapid Enforcement and Allied Computer Team, or REACT, the high-tech crime task force that ultimately confiscated computers from Gizmodo's Chen. Wagstaffe said Powell and outside counsel for Apple contacted the district attorney's office Wednesday or Thursday of last week to report a theft and ask for an investigation, the Journal said. The police know who he is and they have talked to him."

"The investigation has contacted as many segments of the people involved in this situation, including the person who took the phone from the German restaurant. "We're still not saying it's a crime," San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told the Journal.