I know who did it

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During the summer, we had two BB rifles disappear off of our deck. This was blamed on my friend's boyfriend because of a story that a couple of children in the neighborhood told us. We just figured that the guns were gone. Then two weeks ago my husband got home before me and called to ask me why I or the kids had been going through his bedside table and I informed him that none of us had been in there. His table had been emptied and the box from our gun was laying on the middle of our bed. Today I was gone to my physical therapy appointment, but I left my friend at home with the kids because I didn't have anyone else there to watch them. She was on the other computer and all of a sudden she heard something on our back deck. She just sat there really still and the little boy from up the street raised up the screen on the window and then started to open the window from the outside before he realized that she was sitting right there watching him. I kind of thought that he was the guilty party because of some information that he had given to me (he knew far too much to have not been involved in breaking into our house). Well, she told him that she needed the guns back today and if he didn't get them to her, she would be calling the police and reporting him for breaking and entering and theft by unlawful taking. This child is only nine years old. As soon as I got home, I went and talked to his father about this situation. He didn't know anything about it. He immediately told his son that he needed to get the BB rifles back and also gave some of his son's toys to my children as a form of punishment. This little boy is clearly a deviant. I know that reporting it to his father will probably not be something that will stop this kind of criminal behavior in the future, but I also don't want to make dad look bad because his daughter is a very good girl and I know the father and he is a good person as well. I just wish that there was something that I could do to help insure that this kind of deviant behavior does not continue with him in the future. If you would have been the one in this situation, what would you have done? Do you think that there is anything that neighbors and other concerned parents can do to help a neighbor that has a child that is displaying deviant behavior?