Duke Employee Arrested For Pawning A Bunch Of University Laptops

El Taco7 years ago

Wow, Rick Harrison, I guess you really don’t know what’s going to come through that door, do you? It could be a Civil War era Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. Or it could be a few laptops lifted from Duke University. There’s just no way to know. Crazy world we live in.

A Duke University employee was arrested recently for trying to pawn some laptops that belonged to the university. The employee, 28-year-old Troy Daniel Mortenson, worked for Duke Health Technology Services for roughly a year before quitting a few months ago when, I’m assuming, he was supposed to turn over the university property.

From WRAL:

According to the arrest warrant, Mortenson tried to pawn a Lenovo laptop and an Apple iPad Air 2 at Picasso Pawn in Raleigh for $185 on Nov. 17 and a Lenovo laptop at National Jewelry and Pawn in Raleigh for $180 on Dec. 12.

The devices belonged to Duke, and Mortenson had no right to try to sell them, the warrant states.

Um, first off, your Honor, my client did not sell these items. He was simply pawning them for petty cash now and would pay to get them back later. I’ve said it a million times: IOUs are as good as money.

A smart move to pawn university property? Probably not. A potentially financially lucrative one though? Certainly. Let’s say he pawns them for the said $365 and invests it all in bitcoin. Five years from now, he’ll be able to pay the university back so much money they’ll name a building after him! Or he’ll even be more in the red, having to suck dick for crack before going to jail for the rest of his life. I’m not really sure. Bitcoin is weird.

Tough to see Duke take another L..

[via WRAL]