Stolen iPhone ongoing issues?

My son's phone was stolen from a bathroom (yeah he left it there) in Hilton Head SC last summer. We tried to recover from the Mobile me app, but the circle at the beach included several thousand people. The next day we found the phone had moved across island, but the circle was still too big and included some 6-7 houses in an Hispanic district, so we couldn't trace it and wiped the phone and he bought another.
Now about 10 months later, his address book is getting populated with contacts we don't know, but they are almost all hispanic and almost all in Hilton Head SC. Assume the person that took it is using it, or ha given it to someone else using it, but how are they populating his contact list?
Any help with this mystery will be much appreciated!

I may have solved one issue, but am still perplexed. We wiped the phone the day after it was taken. So, if I understand correctly, al of our info was gone.
We haven't changed the mobileme to the new phone yet. But, the thing that perplexes, is that it took 10 months and then this old phone populated my sons contact list on mobile me?
Anyhow, I intend to wipe out the addresses in the contact list hopefully causing some harm to the theif and then reassign the phone to the new phone. That should be the end. right?

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