dsales
06-12-2009, 10:02 AM
I'm an IT Professional and people often come to me for advice on computers. About a month ago a person came to me wanting me to fix his laptop because it would not boot up. I normally charge $25-$50 for a job like that depending on what needs to be done. I told him that it would be about $25 and it would take from 24-48 hours for me to complete the job. He agreed and left his laptop with me for me to fix. The next day this person contacts me while i'm in the middle of fixing his computer and he asks if he can come get his computer back even if I wasn't done with it. I agreed and when he came back to get his laptop I tried to plead with him to let me finish the job. He responded and said that he would like to but he had someone that was interested in buying it. I told him that the computer would be of no use without an Operating System and asked him how much was he going to sell it for. He gave me a price of $150 and I agreed to buy it from him. A couple of days later was done working on the laptop and my roommate asked me if I wanted to sell it because he may have someone that was interested. At first I declined because I wanted to give it my mom for Mother's Day, but I ended up giving it to my roomate so he could let his co-worker take a look at it because he wanted to buy it if he liked it. I ended up selling the computer to this person for $250.
On Sunday June 7, around 8:00 pm three police officers came to my residence and informed me that the laptop I purchased was stolen. The comphiscated it from the person we sold it to, and the asked if they could search my residence because they assumed that more stolen property from that robbery was in at my house. At first I was skeptical because they didn't have a warrant, but I agreed to let them search because I knew that they wouldn't find anything because I didn't commit any crime. They searched and didn't find what they were looking for and I agreed to go the police station and "answer some questions" cocerning how the laptop came into my possession. I was trying to be as cooperatve as i could be and I basically told them the exactly what I described above and after about two hours they let me go back home.
Today I received a call from the detective who searched my house and I didn't answer the phone. He left a message saying that he wanted me to come back to the station to "look at some pictures" of suspects, i guess. And he's also asking to look at my phone records. At this point I don't know what I should do, and what's going to happen. Do they have a right to look at my phone records? Have I committed a crime? I don't know how the process works, but I'm don't feel comfortable going back to the police station about this, because I already told them everything I knew about this situation. What do you recommend I do from here, because I don't know where this is heading? Could you please help me.
On Sunday June 7, around 8:00 pm three police officers came to my residence and informed me that the laptop I purchased was stolen. The comphiscated it from the person we sold it to, and the asked if they could search my residence because they assumed that more stolen property from that robbery was in at my house. At first I was skeptical because they didn't have a warrant, but I agreed to let them search because I knew that they wouldn't find anything because I didn't commit any crime. They searched and didn't find what they were looking for and I agreed to go the police station and "answer some questions" cocerning how the laptop came into my possession. I was trying to be as cooperatve as i could be and I basically told them the exactly what I described above and after about two hours they let me go back home.
Today I received a call from the detective who searched my house and I didn't answer the phone. He left a message saying that he wanted me to come back to the station to "look at some pictures" of suspects, i guess. And he's also asking to look at my phone records. At this point I don't know what I should do, and what's going to happen. Do they have a right to look at my phone records? Have I committed a crime? I don't know how the process works, but I'm don't feel comfortable going back to the police station about this, because I already told them everything I knew about this situation. What do you recommend I do from here, because I don't know where this is heading? Could you please help me.