Mother finds air tag in son’s shoe
A Florida mother was shocked to discover an unknown air tag hidden inside her son’s shoe. She quickly solved the mystery after reporting the incident to law enforcement.
A Florida mother was horrified to find an air tag inside her son’s shoe, calling it “every mother’s worst nightmare,” according to a report.
Jackie Giulleo realized her son was being tracked through the device, but further investigation revealed a strange mix-up. FOX35 reported.
Giulleo told the media that she did not own an AirTag when she started receiving alerts for her son’s location at the Satellite Beach Christmas Parade.
She said she went through all of her son’s clothes and toys and was “heartbroken” when she found the device through a quarter-sized hole in his shoe. She said it had been following him for almost a month.
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Jackie Giurleo (pictured) told Fox 35 that her knees gave out when she found the air tag in her son’s shoe. (Fox 35)
Seven-year-old Aidan told reporters:[goes] “I’ve been to a lot of places,” he said, adding that he never felt an AirTag while traveling.
Panicked, Giurleo took the device to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, where the sheriff’s office issued a subpoena to Apple for the address of the owner of the tracking device in question. The answer took them outside state lines.
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“I go to a lot of places,” 7-year-old Aidan told FOX 35. He never felt the mysterious AirTag inside his shoe, she said.
“Fortunately, it was a happy coincidence and it became a story of two mothers,” Giulleo told FOX 35.
Her son took off his shoes at the bounce house in the Christmas parade. Apparently, he accidentally switched shoes with another boy.
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After Brevard County sheriff’s deputies cited Apple as the owner of the air tag, Jackie Giulleo learned her son had simply swapped shoes with another boy at the bounce house. (Fox 35)
“I remember when I saw one of the kids wearing the same shoes as me. I think we wore them in the same place and then just changed them,” Aidan said. told FOX 35. . ”
Another child was visiting Florida from his home in Oklahoma on vacation. His parents had attached air tags to the inside of their son’s shoes to track him in case of an emergency. They were the ones “tracking” the Florida boy, Giulleo said, but had no clue why or how.
Jackie Giulleo reveals the hidden compartment in her shoe as her son watches. (Fox 35)
The mother was relieved that the air tag mystery was a misunderstanding rather than something more insidious.
“I’m really glad it had a happy ending,” the mother said, according to Fox 35.
Jackie Giulleo said she was relieved that another mother was in charge of the air tag in the compartment and not a criminal. (Fox 35)
Giulleo said he has learned more than he has lost through all of this and may even use AirTag himself at theme parks and other crowded places.
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“We’ve never had AirTags,” she said. “I knew they had luggage and keys and things like that, but I never thought about tracking my kids.”
