Years ago, I purchased some stolen cassette tapes (I did say this was YEARS ago
I had a feeling they may be stolen, but I bought them anyways. The guy gets busted and sure enough, tells the cops who all bought the tapes from him. He was trying to reduce the trouble he was getting into by ratting people out. So, now I was looking at a Possession of Stolen Property Charge.
But I was co-operative and the value at the time was like 30 bucks, so I just had to go to court and testify and wasn't charged with anything.
My advice...save your own asses and go to the cops. Because if you don't save your own ass and that guy gets busted (Laptops from a company are a bit more important than some cassette tapes), he's gonna name your friends to save his own ass.