真心请教, 买ipad带来的法律问题.

在CL上买了一个旧的ipad. 之后去apple申请ID, 建帐户,下软件。没多久, a detective联系我， 说这个ipad是别人丢的。apple把我所有的账户/下载信息都给了这个detective. 所以就找到了我。

 

幸运的是我保留了卖给我ipad的人（AAA）的联系信息， 并交给了detective。这样我被排除了嫌疑。不过ipad被迫上交警察，得到了一个收据。AAA被调查。detective 发现AAA也不是嫌疑人。AAA是从其他人那里买的这个ipad，之后才卖给我。

 

我问detective怎样才能弥补我的损失。这是他的回复：

"The case did come up and they (states attorney) dropped the charges against the guy (AAA) who sold you the IPad. After further investigation it was revealed he was not involved in the burglaries in my area but knew one of the guys involved.  The states attorney advised that you could possibly sue the guy (AAA) if you chose to but according to him, he didn't know the IPad was stolen (even though the deal he got on the IPad was to good to be true, he brought it for $XXX and then flipped it and sold it to you for I think $XXX)"

从来没在美国打过官司. 真心请教. 如果可能，请给一些具体建议. 多谢了!