Police use stolen Apple MacBook’s tracking software to find it
February 16, 2012 6:10PM
Richard Leon / photo from DuPage County Sheriff's office
Updated: March 18, 2012 8:20AM
Police used tracking technology to trace a $4,500 laptop that was swiped from a Hinsdale office building — and caught the alleged thief still holding it, police said.
The 17-inch Apple MacBook laptop had been left in a conference room of an office building. Its owner went to lunch and returned to find it gone.
He called police, who activated the machine’s internal tracking technology. Police traced it to a home in Addison, and officers from Hinsdale and Addison went out at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
When they got to the home, they saw a barefoot man leaving through the back door — carrying the stolen computer, police said.
Richard Leon, 59, of Addison, was charged.
It was the second case in the past six months in which Hinsdale police used the technology to catch an alleged crook. Last October, police investigating a car theft from a gas station were told an Apple iPhone was inside. They then tracked down the phone — and car — and arrested the alleged thief.
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