Stolen laptop leads to drug bust

Somewhere in central Kansas there is a drug dealer sitting in jail wishing he had never stolen a laptop.  Well, I guess someone else could have stolen it, but the lesson is the same.  Because as soon as he used that laptop on the Internet, the built-in security software sent a message to the manufacturer.  The manufacturer notified police, and they tracked the laptop to the residence of Dennis L. Price.

"The computer was on the living room floor," Detective Doze said.

"We found what we suspected to be methamphetamine," Chief Doze said. Hoisington got a third search warrant when officers found "what looks like the components of a meth lab."

Price was booked into the Barton County Jail on charges of possession of ephedrine, drug manufacturing equipment and marijuana.

To clear up any confusion, the detective and the Chief are brothers (hey, its a small Kansas town).

Now, as far as the laptop, the story doesn't get into model and manufacturer.  But all major laptop manufacturers offer this type of software preloaded to enable recovery in the case of theft.  But to take it a little further, I wonder what was on this laptop?  That story is not told.  The reason I ask is because the story says the laptop is worth $9000.  There was some discussion about this on a forum I frequent, but they were simply wondering what kind of uber-laptop costs that much money.  But I wonder at that cost because it leads me to believe that a high-dollar laptop like this was being used by a firm that might be handling some high-end data. 

But a quick search on the address reported in the story shows it to be just an office supply store called Barton Office Systems, so that killed my theory.  I wonder why they need a laptop at that cost, but I am also starting to wonder if it was a misprint (or maybe insurance fraud!).  Oh well, it was fun to search on it anyway.  I guess I could call them up, but I am writing this at 4:30am, so that probably won't work.