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CLEVELAND -- The cell phone frenzy continues!
Now that the iPhone 5s and 5c are about to go on sale, you may be looking to upgrade, and, as usual, thieves are always looking to cash in.
"Because the resale value continues to go up, obviously that builds incentives for theft," says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Cell phones are usually the most valuable thing we carry.
In fact, cell phone theft is one of the fastest growing crimes nationwide.
It's also a quick and lucrative crime, which is why Sen. Sherrod Brown is taking action.
His new bill makes it a federal offense to tamper with a phone's ID number, similar to a vehicle identification number. Here's why that's important: If you lose your phone, your carrier can often deactivate it and prevent its reactivation, but if a criminal swaps out that ID number, your phone is back in service.
"If they can turn around and sell it without much effort, then people are going to steal them more often," says Brown.
In an effort to demonstrate how quick and easy it is to sell a cell phone online, Channel 3 went to three different websites and got three separate quotes for an iPhone 4 in less than one minute.
If Brown's proposal becomes law, someone who tampers with a phone's ID number would be charged with a felony and would spend five years in prison.
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