WHITE PLAINS, NY — While the popularity of Web erotica may be slipping when compared to social networking sites, the old adage that “the internet was made for porn” still holds true for some – including some who have less than white hate intentions when they log on. Such certainly was the case with a recent laptop thief who thought he’d gotten away clean, but couldn’t resist the lure of cybersmut.It was September when Jose Caceres placed his laptop on the roof of his car while packing his belongings into his home. When he returned to retrieve it, the portable computing device was nowhere to be seen.

Which is why he went online to find it.

“I reported the theft to the police and they were investigating,” 27-year-old Careres explained to the Associated Press, “then I decided to sign on and see what the guy was doing with my computer.”

That is when the plot began to officially thick.

Using a remote access program to log on each day, Careres was able to watch his laptop get online, and he was surprised by what he found it doing while there.

As he explains it, the laptop thief initially “was mostly using it to watch porn.”

In time, the lure of free undulating flesh apparently waned and the horny perp typed in his name and address in order to register for an official account. Shortly afterwards, 34-year-old Gabriel Mejia was arrested and charged with grand larceny.

Tech-alert victims of laptop theft have been instrumental in foiling a number of crimes recently, with another White Plains victim using remote-access technology in May to not only locate her laptop, but convince her laptop camera to snap an image of the thief. A teen crime victim located his stolen bike on eBay, alerted the police, and was reunited with his property after an undercover officer pretending to be interested in purchasing the item met with its 17-year-old thief.

“This is what happens when you have victims who get involved and use the available technology to their advantage,” White Plains police department Lt. Eric Fischer explained.