Photos on stolen laptop recovered by computer experts
Posted May 14, 2010 5:59 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – There is some relief amid sorrow, after photos erased from a stolen laptop were recovered.
Teresa Solta of Winnipeg had her computer taken last Saturday from a Toronto cancer centre on Jarvis Street, where she is staying with her father who is undergoing treatment. Although it was recovered on Wednesday, everything had been erased from the hard drive.
“I do have the laptop and (a suspect) has been caught and those are wonderful things,” Solta said Thursday.
Approximately 1,000 pictures of Solta’s 17-year-old daughter Marisa, were on the hard drive, and were retrieved by data recovery experts.
Marisa died in March after a nine-year battle with cancer.
Bradley Warford, 35, of Barrie, Ont., who was wanted on charges of break-and-enter and breach of parole, was arrested Thursday morning in downtown Toronto.
Const. Tony Vella said officers are looking at the possibility Warford was involved in similar thefts from hospitals and commercial buildings.
Tips from the community assisted officers with the investigation and helped to identify the suspect, Vella said.
Solta said she wanted to “thank all of the media, all the people of Toronto, and the Toronto police department because every one of you was needed to get this done.”
“It’s huge for me and my family,” she said.
Officers involved in the case were on patrol in the downtown area when they came across a man acting suspiciously, Vella said. They spoke with him, realized who he was and arrested him, he added.
Solta said she hopes her case sends a message to anyone thinking of stealing from hospitals “that it’s not acceptable and it won’t be tolerated.”
