Why Did Thieves Ditch This Stolen MacBook Pro?
Why Did Thieves Ditch This Stolen MacBook Pro?
https://brobible.com/culture/article/macbook-pro-stolen-found/
Publish Date: 2026-03-03 05:00:00
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Via iStockphoto / @matt__swartzen TikTok
Getting your phone stolen isn’t as bad as it used to be.
Before the advent of smartphones, your options for getting a stolen phone back—or preventing someone from accessing your data—were pretty limited. Now, thanks to the advent of mobile phone wiping, apps like Find My, and IMEI locking that allows a phone’s original owner to stop it from accessing the network, losing your phone or getting it stolen isn’t as much of a headache or security concern.
That said, it’s still really, really annoying. California TikTok user Matt Swartzen (@matt__swartzen) knows this firsthand. In a video with over 2.1 million views, Swartzen explains how he discovered his AirPods and laptop were stolen—and how he got them back.
What Happened To This Man’s Stolen Goods?
According to Swartzen, he parked his car in Sacramento, California, to go to a meeting. Inside the car were a pair of headphones, an upgraded MacBook Pro worth over $4,000, medication, and more.
When he returned to his vehicle, he found that someone had smashed a window and stolen all of his valuables.
“Because I own only Apple products, I was able to go to the Find My app and see the last seen location of all these products. I had a MacBook Pro and AirPods,” he explains. “At first, they were both showing at the same location. But then later on the laptop appeared again in another location, and it was a mobile repair store. And then, it showed up a little bit later just down the street. It looked like it was at one of a couple different houses.”
Concerned, he called the police. The police told him to hang out at a coffee shop near the last known location to meet with a sheriff. Several hours later, a sheriff arrived to begin the search. Soon after, the sheriff called to tell Swartzen that he knocked on a few doors but didn’t find the laptop.
Consequently, Swartzen decided to take matters into his own hands.
The Search Begins
Seeing that the police…
