Talk about a fortuitous coincidence - from the Charleston Post and Courier:
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.
Heh...