A WARRINGTON hotel resident has been charged in a police investigation into a mobile phone reported stolen.

In August, the Warrington Guardian reported how Greater Manchester Police had made an arrest after a phone reportedly stolen in Manchester earlier this month.

The owner of the phone said she tracked the phone through the Find My iPhone feature, which placed it in the Holiday Inn on Woolston Grange Avenue.

The Warrington Guardian reported in April that the hotel was to close to members of the public to accommodate migrants.

The owner said: “My phone was stolen in Manchester on the night of Friday, August 4, by a gang of people.

“I managed to track them down using Find My iPhone, however four of them ran away.

“We only managed to hold two of them until the police came, and incidentally they did not have my phone, but they were caught by someone else trying to steal their phone.

“They told police they were staying at the Holiday Inn hotel in Warrington. My phone location is also at this hotel in Warrington.”

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police in August said: “Officers are continuing to investigate following reports of a stolen phone in Manchester on Friday, August 4.

“At least one arrest has been made in connection with the incident and the phone has been recovered. Enquiries are ongoing.”

Now, Ayham Alaskar was due to appear before Liverpool Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Monday, in connection with the investigation.

The 27-year-old, whose address on court documents is given as Garden Court Hotel, on Woolston Grange Avenue, faces two charges of handling stolen goods and one of possessing cannabis and cannabis resin.

All of the offences are alleged to have been committed on Church Street in Liverpool city centre on August 12.

Both of the handling stolen goods charges involve mobile phones, and allege that Alaskar ‘dishonestly undertook or assisted in the retention, removal, disposal or realisation of stolen goods, knowing or believing the same to be stolen goods’