Aaargh! House broken into... tech stolen. Any advice.

[Speedy]

Buzz wrote: Maybe toss the perp in the wood chipper for add'l drama.

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Only if the Mac and iPod was harmed.

[ka jowct]

It's horrible that your home was violated in that way, but it is SO cool that you got your stuff back!

[Grateful11]

threeprong wrote:
Update: THe police office called me back and said thay unfortunately they shut the door on them.

However , he felt that "these are the guys" and that their behavior and answers to questions weren't adding up. They are in the process of getting a search warrant now and the police officer said he will give me a call once the warrant is in place and the premises are searched.

Here's the place for the curious.... iPad location

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Man that sucks being broken into.

I haven't been in that area of Greensboro in probably 20 years. It's great that they busted these bums.
We have Find My iPhone on every iDevice.

[RAMd®d]

Seems like most cops could not care less about minor property crimes - your guys jumped right on it.

It's a matter of resources vs crime against people vs crimes against property. Getting fingerprints is of no immediate help if the crooks don't have any on file. And in many cases, there is no CSI magic that will yield MATCH FOUND. The cops just hope to match the prints against someone they catch. Which doesn't happen often in these kinds of cases unless the cops catch a break.

Enter Find My iPhone. There have been a *lot* of these recoveries nationwide, and most cops want to catch bad guys. Knowing where the crooks are goes a long way to motivating police in a case where there are no witnesses, no clues, and virtually no chance of every catching them

Book 'em, Dan-o.

[vicrock]

Awesome result! Congrats on having proactive police!

[MartyStickle]

Great news fellow Tar Heel!!

[mjgkramer]

I have found the find iPhone/iPad feature to be very accurate. Last week I could not find my iPad. The find feature showed it to be in front of our house. It was sitting on our park bench next to the drive way where I set it when unloading the car. It has also shown me which end of our house our iPhones and iPads are in.

As for the burglary, we had our garage raided several years ago soon after moving in and I lost a lot of new power tools - about $2500 worth. The guy was caught, he ratted on his buddies, and got off on a plea bargain. I received no restitution but had to stand the $1000 insurance deductible.