ltaa09
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Q: Macs stollen suggestions

Before I start off with this story I I would like to say sorry for it being to long. Lol. Anyways here's the story. I have a sister that's 18 and she hasnt been making the best choices lately and she got pregnant with her drug of a boyfriend. Well right before we left the state and city she chose to stay there with her boyfriend. Well she came to visit us and took a bus down here. She decided she was gonna move down here with her boyfriend. They were gonna move into our house with my parents and I (I'm 13) but me and my dad said that we don't want him in our house and even my mom said so. So they got an apartment. Then what was gonna happen was she was gonna take a bus back home and get an uhual or something and come back down. Well what happend was we all went to my grandmas house to visit for the weekend and my parents just chose to go up there and get him and there stuff and move there stuff. We'll I stayed at my grandmas house to help her with her website for her shop and stuff. When they came to pick me up from my grandmas my dad had me come talk to him. He told me that they had 2 macs from that house and that my sisters boyfriend had told my parents that they were stolen and that he knew they were and that he didn't sell them. I haven't been able to see them yet. But my dad described them to me he said the iMac has a black back plate and since I know a lot about macs and apple I know it's a older one and the other one is a MacBook Pro and that the thing is all trashed up and that there's a spot where you can take the battery out on the bottom meaning that it's also a older Mac. I know that I can take these macs to an apple store and they can look up the serial number and contact the owner. But my problem is that know that they are old is what if the original owner sold them on craigslist or online and that the new person didn't register them and there not the actual owner and I'm basically not helping anyone. My dad doesn't want me to tell anyone that I know he told me because my sister will flip out. And he told me that my sister told him she wants to keep the MacBook Pro. I want to take them to the apple store but I just don't want to give them back to the rightful owner. And I also don't wanna tell the apple store that he stole them even though he didn't (hopefully) so what would I even tell them without getting them into trouble? And I don't know what my sister will do when she finds out what I want to do with them. I'm very smart when it comes to computers I can try to see what the Apple ID is if it's set to iCloud or not when I'm able to see them and contact the owner. But other than that I'm kinda stuck and don't know what to do. And just to let you know my sister isn't like a crazy druggy or anything she's nice that got caught with the wrong guy.

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Posted on Oct 15, 2013 9:03 PM

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Q: Macs stollen suggestions

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  • by varjak paw,

    varjak paw varjak paw Oct 16, 2013 7:58 AM in response to ltaa09
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    Oct 16, 2013 7:58 AM in response to ltaa09

    An Apple Store cannot help them in such matters. If you have reason to suspect that the computers may be stolen, your parents must take the computers to the police.  If anyone in your family tries to hold onto the Macs and they do indeed turn out to be stolen, they and/or your parents may be held criminally liable for possessing stolen property. It will be up to the police to try and track down the rightful owners of the computers.

     

    Regards.

  • by dalstott,

    dalstott dalstott Oct 16, 2013 9:52 AM in response to ltaa09
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    Oct 16, 2013 9:52 AM in response to ltaa09

    Take your story to the police and let them sort it out. Maybe everyone except the boyfriend will be happy again.

  • by ltaa09,

    ltaa09 ltaa09 Oct 16, 2013 5:11 PM in response to varjak paw
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    Oct 16, 2013 5:11 PM in response to varjak paw

    Thanks for your reply! Last night when we got home my dad pulled out the computer and i went and powered it on and found some user accounts on there and they had passwords on them. Well since i know a lot about macs i went into recovery mode and opened terminal and did the command "resetpassword" and reset the password. From there i was able to login and find the email address of the guys apple ID through icloud control pannel. My parents told me not to email him because then hes gonna ask how we got it and who and everything and they dont want us to become liable, i understand where they are comming from but i also what this guy to have his computer back. My dad is contacting his friend and hes gonna ask his friend thats a cop what to do. By the way i should also mention that my parents had no idea that they were bringing stolen things down until half way they were here (across a few states). Im trying to stay out of this even though i could just immagine how i would feel if i got my iMac or other tech stollen from me and thats why i want to get it back to him. I guess ill see how this all plays out. But honestly at this point im annoyed and ****** off at her idiot boyfriend and her..

  • by varjak paw,

    varjak paw varjak paw Oct 17, 2013 7:28 AM in response to ltaa09
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    Oct 17, 2013 7:28 AM in response to ltaa09

    Again, your parents need to turn the iMacs in to the police. They now could not only be held liable for possessing stolen property but also for hacking into the Macs, as could you.

     

    There's nothing more we can advise you on the matter. This is up to your parents to deal with, and I agree with your conclusion that you should stay out of it completely, and that includes helping to hack into the Macs.