Man arrested in theft of laptops from Clinton staffers in Northern Liberties

6ABC.COM ^ | 06 NOVEMBER 2016 | 6ABC.COM

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

NORTHERN LIBERTIES (WPVI) -- A 27-year-old man has been arrested in the theft of several laptops from Clinton staffers in Northern Liberties.

Police say a search warrant was executed Saturday on the 500 block of Diamond Street, and all three laptops were recovered from the suspect's residence.

The suspect, who is known to police, was taken into custody. Charges are pending.

The suspect's identity has not been released at this time.

Investigators say three campaign workers left the laptops inside backpacks in an SUV parked on the 100 block of Brown Street after 8 p.m. Friday.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hopefully, he made copies of the hard drives and passed them on to his friends before being caught.

[NativeSon]

Welcome to Philly, B***hes! - enjoy your crops & chickens..

[Paladin2]

Ah, Philly. No GOPers to steal from.

[trebb]

The irony is that he’s probably a solid Dem who just saw an “opportunity to better himself” via property that didn’t belong to him. The fact that “he was known....” but we haven’t been told anything else assures that.

[aynrandfreak]

All of the files on those laptops will now need to be examined as evidence.

[Kid Shelleen]

Northern Liberties is a “gentrified” area in Philly. When I used to visit friends around there they told me not to leave any loose change visible in my car or it would probably get robbed.

[Uncle Miltie]

Clinton voter looking for pawnables.

[Morpheus2009]

So what is the incentive for people throw things to wikileaks?

[az_gila]

I wonder if they were Macs and he was caught with the “Find My Phone” app?

[thomas16]

Nope Philly is a 1 party town, no GOP. I work in that area and anyone who leaves their car unlocked or anything visible worth or not worthy of stealing WILL be robbed.

[philman_36]

So, how exactly did they find him so quickly?

[justlurking]

So, how exactly did they find him so quickly?

I'm guessing he was caught on video and recognized:

The suspect, who is known to police, was taken into custody.

[philman_36]

They looked up and down for him?

[philman_36]

I'm guessing he was caught on video and recognized:

Then where is the video? Posting videos of crimes is commonplace these days.

[justlurking]

Then where is the video? Posting videos of crimes is commonplace these days.

Since the police aren't identifying the suspect yet, it would still be in evidence.

There are other possibilities, depending on how the laptop is configured. There is the equivalent of LoJack for laptops, and if the perp just turned on one of the laptops, it would give them a pretty accurate location.

https://lojack.absolute.com/en

[philman_36]

http://blog.phillypolice.com/?s=Northern+Liberties

No video.

https://blog.phillypolice.com/tag/arrested/

No mention.

[proud American in Canada]

Odd story.

Was he paid to do this? (i.e., get rid of evidence?)

[Scrambler Bob]

Russian

[GailA]

Sounds like Memphis!