Police aided by online database in stolen laptops case

Friday, October 19, 2007 | 6:32 p.m. CDT; updated 5:53 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLUMBIA — Investigating the theft of 16 computers from MU last week, university police used information from an online pawn shop database to find their suspect, a former teaching assistant who worked in the German and Russian Studies Department.

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