Harris County Precinct 5 deputy under investigation after burglary victim’s laptop was found in his home

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County Precinct 5 deputy constable is beneath investigation after a burglary victim’s MacBook Professional finished up in his home. Deputy Celso Castillo is nonetheless on the drive, but he is not doing street patrol, according to Constable Ted Heap’s workplace.

The saga commenced Oct. 28. Nathan Kilcourse, pulled into his Westbury house from get the job done at about 2 a.m. and went to snooze. When he opened his truck afterwards that morning, his heart sank.

“As before long as I opened my door I saw the middle console, and I realized what took place. I looked in my backseat, and I realized my backpack was gone,” Kilcourse claimed.

Kilcourse recalled that his MacBook Pro was in the backpack. Correct away, he identified as Constables and built a report.

The deputy who took the report told him that many neighbors had their autos broken into as nicely. In addition, he was instructed that an additional deputy had stopped some suspicious teenagers early that morning, but no merchandise have been located.

Kilcourse then turned on the “Obtain My Iphone” application, hoping his laptop computer would ping it. Shockingly, that night time, whilst he was nonetheless at function, it worked.

“At about 9:30 p.m. and I get a actual physical handle of my MacBook, I received tremendous excited and was like, ‘Yes, I am going to confront this dude and get my MacBook back again,'” he stated.

On Oct. 29, Kilcourse adopted the ping from his Westbury neighborhood all the way to Katy, and was stunned at what he found.

There was a Precinct 5 patrol car parked out front of the residence in which his notebook experienced pinged. Kilcourse knocked at the door and Deputy Castillo answered.

He verified to Kilcourse that he investigated the auto crack-ins, but did not have Kilcourse’s laptop computer.

“He suggests he interviewed two teenagers, but he didn’t have my MacBook,” Kilcourse recalled. “I tell him like, ‘My MacBook states it’s listed here and you happen to be telling me it truly is not.’ And he states once more, ‘I never know in which your effing MacBook is at, but it truly is not listed here.'”

Kilcourse states Deputy Castillo at one particular stage invited him to “glance all-around” in his dwelling and opened the back door of his patrol vehicle to show no laptop computer. Experience not comfortable, Kilcourse left, and referred to as Precinct 5 supervisors.

A quick time afterwards, he says Castillo identified as him, saying that he did a thorough search and observed the notebook in the trunk of his patrol car or truck. The notebook was later on returned to Kilcourse by a supervisor.

Precinct 5 says Castillo explained to supervisors he forgot to catalogue and change in the laptop computer at the finish of his shift. Even so, he says that explanation just isn’t going to match his MacBook’s spot record.

“At 9:30 at night you have to turn it on for it to ping, you have to know the place it’s at,” Kilcourse said.

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