I'm sure he could have got his computer back much sooner if he was sensible but he was a dumb kid, I imagine he just waiting for the police to give it back to him (probably low on their list of things to do).

He had a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way, bragging about being having 'leet' computer skills (he didn't) and doing idiotic things like mass net sends at school so I'm sure it was in many ways his fault. Does show how paranoid the police can be about "hackers" though.