Sometimes tracking down a criminal is a lot tougher than when cops return texts from dumb drug dealers or follow a trail of empty candy wrappers after a break-in at a candy store.

Like a modern-day version of the Hardy Boys, tech savvy college student Mark Bao didn’t sit idly by after his MacBook Air was stolen.

Instead he turned to the Internet like a bloodhound on a scent. The 18-year-old student at Bentley College realized everything the thief did with the laptop would be uploaded to the site BackBlaze, which backs up subscribers software and information.

The geeky Sherlock Holmes logged in and saw the criminal had used the Mac’s camera to take a photo of himself. Soon after the dancing outlaw took a video of himself busting a move to Tyga’s “Make It Rain.” Maybe the only thing more surprising would have been seeing a video of a thieving priest utilizing his stolen computer to create a viral video.

Bao shared the video and the pic and soon after the thief was identified.

He took the information he’d gathered to the police who got his MacBook back for him.

Bao, however, had already purchased a replacement laptop, so he is selling the returned Air and will donate the proceeds to the Red Cross Japan relief fund. At least something good came out of this crime.

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