Man charged after police seize stolen laptops worth £40,000

Date published: 31 October 2011

A man has been charged after 20 stolen laptops worth more than £40,000 were recovered from a house in Radcliffe.

Kristian Ocego of Bamburgh Close, Radcliffe, Bury, has been charged with handling stolen goods and cultivating cannabis.

He was due to appear at Tameside Magistrates' Court on Saturday 29 October 2011.

The charges relate to an incident where 20 laptops were stolen from a firm in Dukinfield between Friday 21 October and Monday 24 October 2011.

Officers launched an operation to recover the laptops, executed a warrant at a house in Radcliffe on Friday 28 October 2011 and recovered the stolen laptops and seized a number of cannabis plants.