An Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone is displayed Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, a federal judge ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in December in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Apple has helped the government before in this and previous cases, but this time Apple CEO Tim Cook said no and Apple is appealing the order. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)AP Photo An Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone is displayed at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles.
An Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone is displayed Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, a federal judge ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in December in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Apple has helped the government before in this and previous cases, but this time Apple CEO Tim Cook said no and Apple is appealing the order. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)AP Photo An Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone is displayed at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles. Credit: Ringo H.W. Chiu

Police have accused three men of trying to get a number of Apple iPhones at two stores by saying they represented various businesses.

Police in Nashua said the three were arrested Thursday after trying to get the phones at the Verizon Wireless Store and the AT&T store, both on Daniel Webster Highway.

Police said they “purported themselves to be representatives of various businesses in order to obtain a quantity of Apple iPhones.”

One man was charged with conspiracy to commit theft by deception and had a warrant issued from New Jersey on fraud-related offenses. The others were charged with one count of attempt to commit theft by deception.

It wasn’t immediately known if they had lawyers.