Hi all,

I am new to this bitcoin thing so maybe I make some mistakes, please bear with me.

I have a friend who just contacted me and told me about this new thing called bitcoins. His situation is that he is in prison serving a sentence for I think 8 years, and he needs me to get his bitcoins.

He said two years ago he wanted to buy drugs on the internet so he used a couple hundred bucks to buy some bitcoins, he said he thinks there are around 30,000 of them but he is not totally sure.

But he never got round to using them and they are still sitting in his computer.

However when my friend was arrested last year the police confiscated his computer. I just asked the police for his computer, they told me because his computer was connected to his drug dealing charges it was confiscated, and it will be sold at public auction later.

My question is should I hire a lawyer to ask for his computer, and even if I got it how on earth do I get these bitcoin thingy back??