Youth of today

Meredith called me on her way back from work. The detective working the burglary had called her to tell her that my gun had been recovered. Someone in a town a little north of Austin reported a suspicious person walking down the street knocking on doors and looking in windows. The cops questioned him and searched his vehicle and found my .40 caliber handgun. He claimed he "bought it from someone" apparently they also found some other items that were linked to another recent burglary as well. Turns out they think that this 20 year old man was leading a "crew" of juveniles ranging in ages from 17-13 years old, driving around breaking into houses. The guy is sitting in jail now. Weapons possession alone is enough to get him some good time in jail.
They haven't recovered Meredith's notebook. They found some other notebooks he had, right manufacturer but wrong model and the wrong Windows login. They'll continue to search pawn shops, Ebay and Craiglist for it as well as the other items that went missing.
I called the detective and asked about the gun. He said that it would be processed at a firearms facility where they would fire several rounds and collect the slugs and casings to check to see if it had been involved in anything after the time it left my possession. They'll call me when I can get it back.
Meredith mentioned to the detective that we thought that the window next to the back door might have been tampered with the night of the burglary. Sunday morning I had found that the window screen had also been removed and a small hole in the screen where it looked like someone had stuck a screw driver through to pop the screen out. Apparently the officers had overlooked it the night of the burglary and had concentrated on processing the door instead. The detective urged us to call 911 to have an officer come out and process the window. Apparently, they are needing more evidence to link the alleged thieves to the scenes.
When the officer arrived he dusted the window and found a couple of prints where it looks like someone with small hands had tried to push the window up...both at the middle of the window and towards the top of the window. Chances are those are our culprits. I haven't messed with that window in ages and the handprints are much smaller than Meredith's or mine.
I'm just happy that the gun has been found and at least one criminal has been taken off the streets.