Stolen laptop leads to man's arrest
A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he took a laptop computer into a store to get the password protection removed, North Charleston police said.
A manager at RentWay on 5617 Rivers Ave. recognized a picture on the Dell Inspiron laptop's start-up screen as his friend's child, an incident report states. The laptop had been reported stolen from an apartment at 5941 Willard Drive in Hanahan.
Officers found the man who took the computer to the store riding a bicycle on South Boland Circle.
Anthony Jamal Macon of Burton Lane was arrested on a charge of possession of stolen property over $1,000, police said. Macon left the Charleston County Detention Center the next day after posting $5,000 bail, according to the jail and Charleston County Clerk of Court records.
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