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oddly enough

Computer support call leads to burglary arrest

DOVER, N.H.

Mike Witonis got an email from Apple thanking him for calling customer service about his laptop computer. Problem is, someone had stolen it from him a year earlier.

Police eventually arrested 24-year-old Casey Wentworth of Portsmouth and charged him with burglary. He’s accused of taking the laptop from Witonis’ home in Dover in February 2013.

When the break-in happened, police said they couldn’t identify any suspects. Detectives contacted Apple, and the laptop’s serial number was flagged.

When Witonis got the email, he contacted police, who said the person who called customer service used the serial number of the stolen computer.

Witonis told WMUR-TV the discovery was sort of shocking.

Wentworth is scheduled to be arraigned May 2. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer.

Stolen car turns up in owner’s spot in restaurant

BREMERTON, Wash.

A man whose car was stolen was amazed to find it 12 days later parked in his regular spot at the Bremerton restaurant where he works, 3 miles from where it vanished.

David Nicholson says it was a “one-in-a-million” chance that the thief parked in his spot.

The Kitsap Sun reported that the Port Orchard man had climbed into his Honda Prelude before he remembered the car had been stolen last month and called 911.

Kitsap County sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson deputies arrested a man suspected of taking the car.

Nicholson said the car had its ignition punched and other damage but he’s got it back.

Hilltop’s fiberglass cows find home in Lynnfield

LYNNFIELD, Mass.

Three of the fiberglass cows that once stood outside the Hilltop Steak House restaurant in Saugus have found a new home not too far away.

A cow and two calves have been installed outside near a children’s play area at Market- Street, an outdoor shopping center in Lynnfield.

A spokeswoman for MarketStreet says when management heard the cows were going to be sold after the landmark restaurant on U.S. Route 1 closed last fall after 52 years in business, they snapped them up to keep a piece of local nostalgia in the area.

She told The Daily Item the cows cost “several thousand dollars.”

The cows will be used as marketing tools and decorated for various holidays and sales.

Associated Press