“Officers say the lab was able to pinpoint who had the device when it was dropped. “ eh?
Seriously sophisticated considering how much time went by.
It will likely have an account name registered with Apple which might be linked to a credit card. Also email addresses and other account names will be stored on it. You might not be able to tell who had it when dropped, but you can at least tell who the last registered owner was who will have to work hard to explain how all that porn got on the iPod. It would be more than enough for the police to get a warrant to see if the porn on the iPod was synced to his computer.