MBP stolen - retrieving serial no. or MAC address from apple?

My recently purchased MBP was stolen out of my apt. a few days ago. Unfortunately, they also took the box which had the serial no's on it. I was able to retrieve the purchase reciept from where I bought it (BestBuy), but what I really need is the serial no. and/or the MAC address so the police could hopefully track it down.
My question is, did Apple happen to collect that information on the machine when I did the registration at first startup? I didn't get AppleCare unfortunately, but perhaps that exists somewhere at apple. If so, would anyone happen to know how I could retrieve that info?
Thanks,
LS

Hi lucien,
When you register the machine that information is sent to Apple if you've got a valid network connection to the Internet at the time of registration. From my experience, in dealing with Apple on these requests, they do not disclosure machine specific information like a serial # even if you indicate that you're the owner of the machine.
You can certainly call them for clarification that, but I know a week or so ago another user of this forum was looking for the same information and they indicated that Apple would not disclose that to them.

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