Absolute’s Top Recoveries of the Week

The Fast Track to Unemployment

A Pennsylvania company noticed a hole in their laptop inventory, prompting them to report a theft to police and Absolute. The Absolute Theft Recovery Team had no problems identifying the stolen laptop’s unauthorized user– a familiar name to the victim company. It seems that a long-time staff member felt he was owed a little extra compensation, and so helped himself to a company computer. As a police visit to his residence revealed, the laptop was not the only company ‘gift’ he heisted – in a stash resembling the company’s supply closet, the man had also taken a number of monitors, handhelds and other electronic goodies.

This laptop (which, along with the other items, has since been returned to the company) is now better known as a ‘parting gift’, as, needless to say, the suspect is now a former employee.

Proving Laptops Get Stolen Just About Everywhere

This laptop was stolen out of a Michigan church. Absolute identified the laptop’s new location soon after– a residence just a stone’s throw away from the churchyard. Police visited the residence the following weekend, resulting in a group of adolescents facing some serious scrutiny…The laptop has since been returned to the church.

Have Laptop, Will Travel

A recent residential burglary left one of Absolute’s New York customer sans laptop. The next day, Absolute was able to pinpoint the stolen machine’s location to a nearby neighborhood, although soon after, the laptop had jumped to a bordering state. Within days of this move, the laptop began connecting to the Absolute Monitoring Center from the opposite coast – its last stop before travelling to Korea.

Meanwhile, Absolute collected information on the laptop’s unauthorized user, and passed this over to police. As further investigation revealed, the unauthorized user had purchased the stolen machine on eBay before heading to Korea on business. A little coaxing from police resulted in the laptop being shipped back to New York to be reunited with its rightful owner.

Please note that indictments and criminal complaints are merely unproven accusations and the accused in all cases are presumed innocent until proven guilty.