The Previous Owner

The leads from Sun began to pay off. We discovered that they had sold the computer to a university in New York City. They were even able to give us a contact name there. It looked like Sun kept computerized records very efficiently. Clearly it was time for one of the agents to follow up on this. One question that we wanted to ask was, “How did the computer get from the university to Wesley?”

After a short conversation with the contact at the university, we got our answer. It turned out that the computer had been stolen about a year before we had seized it. Well, this appeared to be the first confirmed crime we had for Wesley. It seemed he did an inside job, because he had worked at the University for a short time. Our best ...

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