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Man chokes woman, steals laptop

( Laptops and Theft )

Here is an interesting little blurb in a Rhode Island newspaper about a stolen laptop. Apparently a woman was choked before her laptop was stolen.
WARREN, RHODE ISLAND — Ceferino Nunez, 27, whose last known address is 27 Sunset Ave., East Providence, was charged with second degree robbery, a felony, and simple assault, a misdemeanor, […]

Stolen Ameriprise Laptop Has Customer Data

( Laptops and Theft )

It was reported by various news outfits that Ameriprise Financial Inc., the former brokerage unit of American Express Co., has acknowledged that a company laptop computer which contained information on about 158,000 customers had been stolen.
Ameriprise said the theft occurred when an employee’s vehicle was broken into at “an off-site location.” MacMillan declined to say […]

Devestating Theft of Laptop

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Look how sad losing her laptop made this student in New Zealand. On January 13 2006, Tara Olsthoorn a third year nursing student and volunteer surf life guard noticed the window of her car was down. Her worst fears were confirmed and her laptop computer was missing.

They took my laptop, all my […]

Did Cuban Spies steal an activist’s laptop?

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A group of anti-Castro activists wonders if spies may have stolen a laptop computer from their office during Hurricane Wilma. The office of the Cuban Liberty Council was not forcibly broken into and nothing was taken except for the Apple laptop. The burglary of the laptop seemed to have occured as Miami shut […]

Former Official Pleads Guilty to Computer Theft

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A former Labor Department official is guilty of stealing 12 government laptop computers. The former official was the Supervisory Program Manager for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).
Basit Chaudhary pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information this morning at U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. The information, filed on Nov. […]

Kevin Costner’s Laptop Stolen

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It looks like Keven Costner’s Apple laptop was stolen a little over a year ago. From the Scotsman’s article:
An upmarket hairstylist [Pascal Bensimon, age 44], has been charged with stealing actor Kevin Costner’s laptop computer, which had private photos of his wedding. [Bensimon] surrendered to Pitkin police officials in Colorado this week after a […]