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With Apple’s retail locations and carriers taking delivery of iPhone 5 stocks last night, a number of heists have occurred in different parts of the world. While Apple’s retail locations were full of employees preparing stores for the iPhone 5 launch, carriers’ retail stores, which were left unattended last night, became the main target for thieves.

The Wall Street Journal reports ^[2] that last night 191 iPhone 5s were stolen from three separate stores in Osaka, Japan. According to police, 116 new iPhones were stolen within a 4 minute span from a locked backroom in a store run by carrier partner Softbank. It is unknown yet whether three burglaries are connected.

Another incident occurred at O2 store in London, where 252 iPhone 5 and some cash were stolen just a few hours before the iPhone 5 launch. The police are looking for Usman Sethi who works as a shop-assistant at the store.

According to ^[3] NewsChannel5, in Tuesday  a group of eight thieves allegedly swiped more than $100,000 in stolen iPads and iPhone 5s from a Best Buy store in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The surveillance video ^[4] shows the burglars wearing dark ski masks and hooded sweatshirts, rammed the store’s garage door with a stolen car.