Betcha a $1 the repair shop ticket says something to the effect of items and contents left over 30 days past pick up date become property of the shop, blah, blah, blah...... long ago, he lost the ability to call the data his.
He's a guy that should lay low... there are plenty of things he could be charged with if that game ever starts up. A lifetime of entitlement apparently does funny things to the fried mind of a junkie