I did not use any technology to track it back. Just gave my serial number & description to a friend  in town and it was tracked to a certain pawn broker/shylock . I paid a certain amount and I got it back with everything intact. 
I had gone to the police and done a statement and all that but i knew it was waste of time since they told me  to wait & give them time to investigate after viewing the footage closely. I did not have the time  for being taken up and down by police so i engaged this streetwise friend who asked for the serial number and description of the laptop. He in turn apparently shared this with some guys in town and for sure within 2 hrs he called me to ask me the username of the main account on the laptop. I gave him the username and to my amazement it matched and i had the laptop intact within the next 1 hr. It turns out that there are 4 main guys in town who handle stolen gadgets i.e laptops, pads & smartphones under the protection of some senior cops. & therefore I did not involve the police again and I don't plan to because i knew if I involved them i would not have gotten the laptop.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Charles,

Please share how you managed to track & recover. 


On 13 February 2014 11:22, charles kungu <charles.kungu@gmail.com> wrote:
Be wary of this laptop thief. He came to our office posing as a customer in the evening at around 6 when everyone was either out or leaving and the security was lax. He proceeded to steal 2 laptops mine included. I hear that they operate as a cartel and frequent offices that are outside the CBD in the evenings when people are leaving the office coz that's when they cant be easily noticed or questioned. 
All in all I managed to track and recover my laptop but the guy is still at large. 

Here is the link to the cctv footage




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