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Footprints in snow lead police to burglary suspect

Associated Press

5:07 p.m. CST, December 28, 2009

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Footprints in snow led Eaton County sheriff's deputies to 25 laptop computers stolen from a school, then led them to the suspected thief.

Kawin Grady, 22, of Lansing was being held Monday evening on a $5,000 bond in the Eaton County Jail following his arraignment on one count of receiving stolen property.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Jessica Larkin says deputies responded at 2:45 a.m. Sunday to an alarm at an elementary school in Delta Township just east of Lansing.

They followed fresh footprints in the snow and found 25 abandoned laptop computers and a slide projector nearby. They kept following the footprints and eventually arrested Grady near a church.

Grady's preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 8. Jail guards had no records indicating whether he had a lawyer.