Housebreaking sufferer’s laptop computer discovered at deputy’s house

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County Precinct 5 deputy constable is below investigation after a housebreaking sufferer’s MacBook Professional ended up in his house. Deputy Celso Castillo continues to be on the pressure, however he’s not doing avenue patrol, in keeping with Constable Ted Heap’s workplace.

The saga started Oct. 28. Nathan Kilcourse, pulled into his Westbury house from work at about 2 a.m. and went to sleep. When he opened his truck later that morning, his coronary heart sank.

“As quickly as I opened my door I noticed the middle console, and I knew what occurred. I seemed in my backseat, and I knew my backpack was gone,” Kilcourse stated.

Kilcourse recalled that his MacBook Professional was within the backpack. Straight away, he known as Constables and made a report.

The deputy who took the report instructed him that a number of neighbors had their vehicles damaged into as properly. As well as, he was instructed that one other deputy had stopped some suspicious youngsters early that morning, however no objects have been discovered.

Kilcourse then turned on the “Discover My iPhone” app, hoping his laptop computer would ping it. Shockingly, that night time, whereas he was nonetheless at work, it labored.

“At about 9:30 p.m. and I get a bodily tackle of my MacBook, I acquired tremendous excited and was like, ‘Sure, I will confront this man and get my MacBook again,'” he stated.

On Oct. 29, Kilcourse adopted the ping from his Westbury neighborhood all the way in which to Katy, and was shocked at what he found.

There was a Precinct 5 patrol automobile parked out entrance of the house the place his laptop computer had pinged. Kilcourse knocked on the door and Deputy Castillo answered.

He confirmed to Kilcourse that he investigated the automobile break-ins, however did not have Kilcourse’s laptop computer.

“He says he interviewed two teenagers, however he did not have my MacBook,” Kilcourse recalled. “I inform him like, ‘My MacBook says it is right here and also you’re telling me it is not.’ And he says once more, ‘I do not know the place your effing MacBook is at, but it surely’s not right here.'”

Kilcourse says Deputy Castillo at one level invited him to “go searching” in his house and opened the again door of his patrol automobile to point out no laptop computer. Feeling uncomfortable, Kilcourse left, and known as Precinct 5 supervisors.

A short while later, he says Castillo known as him, claiming that he did a radical search and located the laptop computer within the trunk of his patrol automobile. The laptop computer was later returned to Kilcourse by a supervisor.

Precinct 5 says Castillo instructed supervisors he forgot to catalogue and switch within the laptop computer on the finish of his shift. Nevertheless, he says that rationalization simply would not match his MacBook’s location historical past.

“At 9:30 at night time you must flip it on for it to ping, you must know the place it is at,” Kilcourse stated.

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