A computer-savvy White Plains woman named Kait Duplaga, who works at an Apple store in The Westchester mall, caught hold of the thieves through her stolen laptop’s in-built camera.
The victim, who stays with two roommates in an apartment, has proudly solved the crime herself by logging into her stolen Macintosh laptop and clicked a photograph of the suspect via the integrated camera. Here goes the motivational story.
On 27th April, three roommates entered their apartment and noticed that their home had been ransacked. Very useful and costly technology products, such as two laptops, two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming consoles, DVDs and computer games were missing.
Few days later, the victim’s friend saw her online through his computer. And to re-check whether it was her who is using the internet or somebody else, the friend informed Kait.
As she was not online, she signed onto another computer and took advantage of the “Back to My Mac” program that helps to determine the stolen Macintosh laptop. She found that her laptop was indeed signed onto the Web and the thief is using it to shop online.
Smartly she activated the stolen computer’s camera that enables her to view who is in front of the Macintosh. Initially, she couldn’t see anybody. After sometime a man was seen. She immediately took the photograph of that person. She was also able to get the other thief’s picture with the same technique.
The photographs were shown to her roommates and they recognized them as Edmon Shahikian and Ian Frias, who are victim’s friend’s friend. They had come at their apartment for a get-together few weeks ago. These photographs were given to the police and the culprits were soon arrested.
This is an ideal situation that informs people to not panic and act intelligently to punish the guilty parties.
