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Burglars hit Chicago offices of 2 Blagojevich lawyers, make off with computers and a safe

Burglars hit offices of Blagojevich’s legal team

CHICAGO — Burglars broke into the offices occupied by two members of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s legal defense team overnight and stole eight computers and a safe, police said Friday.

The break-in occurred at the South Side offices of veteran Chicago criminal defense lawyer Sam Adam and his son, Samuel E. Adam, police said. They are two of the three leading members of the team defending Blagojevich on charges that he schemed to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat.

Chief of detectives Steve Peterson told a news conference that detectives don’t know whether anything related to Blagojevich’s federal fraud case was contained on the computers. But he said they are interviewing the attorneys.

Even if the computers contained sensitive material related to the federal case against Blagojevich, the lawyers had all of its material in backup files on a master server elsewhere in the offices that was untouched by the burglars, according to an individual with knowledge of the legal defense team.

A number of discs with material related to the case were around the office but not taken, said that person who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Police said the burglars broke into the offices overnight and at some point tripped an alarm.

Several attorneys besides the Adamses work out of the offices.

The third key member of Blagojevich’s legal defense team, Sheldon Sorosky, works out of his law firm’s downtown offices.

Sam Adam is a veteran of 40 years of criminal law practice in Chicago and has handled numerous high-profile cases. His son gained the spotlight last year with shouting, whispering, table-pounding closing arguments at R. Kelly’s trial on child pornography charges, which ended with the R&B singer’s acquittal.

Associated Press writer Don Babwin contributed to this story.

AUSTRIA COMPUTERS STOLEN http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-12-04/18606/Cops_confiscate_79_stolen_notebooks

Cops confiscate 79 stolen notebooks

By David Rogers

Tens of thousands of Euros of computers were seized by Burgenland police yesterday (Thurs).

Officers found 70 notebook computers and four monitors in the back of a truck driven by three Romanians aged 28, 32, and 38, when they pulled them over in a routine roadside check near the Nickelsdorf border crossing in Neusiedl am See yesterday (Thurs).

The trio claimed they bought the computers in Germany and produced a receipt, but police who checked with German colleagues they found out it was fake.

The driver of the truck had now been arrested and police chiefs said the goods, worth 46,500 Euros, had been destined for transport to Morocco.

ONTARIO COMPUTER STOLEN http://www.thepost.on.ca/feedback1/contactdetailst.aspx

Laptop stolen from Hanover store

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-A laptop computer from "Healthy Computers" on 10th Street was stolen from the store on Nov. 26. The laptop is an Apple MacBook Pro Laptop, 17 inches, and silver in colour. The serial number for the laptop is W8932IJ78YA. If you have any information, call police or Crime Stoppers.

SOUTH AFRICA COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1094263

Thieves target more township schools

04 December 2009

Getrude Makhafola

WORRIED: Bona Comprehensive School’s Duma Khali, whose school in Orlando East has been the target of thieves. Schools in Soweto have lost TV sets, computers and other equipments.

SCHOOLS in the townships are under siege from thieves.

Thugs have been targeting classrooms, stealing computers, furniture, gates, window and door frames.

As more schools get computers and get connected online, thieves are breaking into computer labs, stealing the expensive equipment.

“So far we have opened six burglary cases with the police,” said Duma Khali, the chairperson of the school’s governing body.

“At one point we found one of the gates uprooted and stolen.”

His school, Bona Comprehensive School in Orlando East, Soweto, has not been spared by thieves.

They broke into the computer lab recently through the wall and stole a plasma TV and a printer.

In another incident yesterday, Diodi Primary School in Mapetla was broken into in the morning.

A computer and other office equipment were stolen.

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Burglars take aim at TVs, computers

Athens Banner-Herald

Published Friday, December 04, 2009

Buzz up!

Burglars removed a pane of glass from the back window of a University of Georgia student's home in the 200 block of Midway Road between 10:45 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. Wednesday and stole a flat-screen TV, a laptop computer and jewelry with a total value of $1,300, Athens-Clarke police said.

Also Wednesday, a woman who lives in the 100 block of Habersham Drive witnessed a burglary at her neighbor's home about 3 p.m., when she saw a man push in the front door, then leave with a flat-screen TV and laptop, police said.

She described the man as white, in his early 20s and at least 6 feet tall. He drove away in a dark blue GMC sport utility vehicle with tinted windows, police said.

Thieves also cut through a screen window of a home at College Park-Lakeside Apartments, 1000 Lakeside Drive, late Wednesday morning and stole a laptop valued at $800, police said.

Burglars also pried open a back window of a home in the 100 block of Sir Scott Road between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 12:16 a.m. Thursday and stole a speaker box, hats and gold rings with a total value of $900, police said.

MASSACHUSETTS COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.wickedlocal.com/brookline/news/police_and_fire/x441566595/Fifteen-laptops-stolen-from-Brookline-s-Pierce-School

Fifteen laptops stolen from Brookline’s Pierce School

By Neal Simpson/staff writer

Wicked Local Brookline

Posted Dec 03, 2009 @ 11:06 AM

Brookline —

Fifteen laptop computers were stolen from an unlocked cabinet at Brookline’s Pierce School sometime Monday night, according to Brookline Police.

Officer Ronnie McNeil said a teacher noticed the theft after a student went to borrow a laptop from a wheeled computer cabinet Tuesday morning and found it empty. The cabinet was reportedly kept in an unlocked room in the Pierce School’s historic building, which locks automatically at 6 p.m. every night.

Police found no signs of forced entry outside the school.

The Pierce School is located at 50 School St. in Brookline Village, adjacent to Town Hall.

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ILLINOIS COMPUTERS STOLEN Police Blotter :: News :: PIONEER PRESS :: Oak Park Leaves:

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Someone entered Sachem Company, 1033 South Blvd., through an unlocked window sometime between 9 p.m. Nov. 22 and 6 a.m. Nov. 23 and stole computers, a cell phone, cash and miscellaneous items. The total loss was estimated at $1,540.

A laptop computer and $20 in change was stolen from an apartment on the 1100 block of Ontario Street on Nov. 24. The loss was estimated at $1,020.

IOWA COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.kcci.com/news/21797594/detail.html

Police: Crash Victim's Home Burglarized

POSTED: 11:14 am CST December 3, 2009

UPDATED: 5:35 pm CST December 3, 2009

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Des Moines police confirmed Thursday that the

home of a woman who died in a crash at Gray's Lake Park was burglarized.

Buffy Lucas, 34, died Monday when her SUV plunged into the lake. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Police said the home in the 1300 block of Hull Ave. was burglarized after the crash.

Lucas's parents, children and ex-husband showed up at her east-side home Wednesday afternoon and discovered that someone had broken in. Police said somebody stole her valuables as well as computers and video games that belonged to her children.

"How somebody could have the nerve to go into somebody's home because they know that they've passed away and nobody's going to be there and take items from the home -- they've got to be heartless," said Larry Stine, Lucas' father.

Stine said he's working on gathering pictures for her upcoming visitation and funeral, and he very much wants pictures from her stolen computer.

"The memories and the things that she had on there, we can't replace those.Do we care about a tower on a computer and a couple of video games, some books and a whatever. Those things weren't important it's the other things that you can't replace," said Stine.

Police are working on the case, but so far have made no arrests.

"I believe that the person who is responsible for this burglary very well knew that this person was deceased and decided to break in and steal her items," said Sgt. Lori Lavorato, Des Moines police spokeswoman.

Lucas's family hopes someone will do the right thing and come forward.

"It's just hard to fathom that somebody would do something like this," said Don Lucas, Buffy's ex-husband.

Look for updates on this developing story on KCCI-TV and here on KCCI.com.

KANSAS COMPUTER STOLEN http://www.salina.com/news/story/biztheft12-3-09

Police investigate theft from business

12/3/2009

Salina police are investigating the theft of items from the office of Kape Roofing, 315 W. Pacific.

Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield said that someone broke a window and entered the business between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Items taken included a notebook computer and carrying case, an external computer disc drive, a GPS unit, a battery charger and a black tool bag with socket sets inside.

Loss was estimated at $625.

BRITISH COLUMBIA COMPUTER STOLEN http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/mapleridgenews/news/78467642.html

Maple Ridge News

Third church hit by theft

By Monisha Martins - Maple Ridge News

Published: December 03, 2009 3:00 PM

Updated: December 03, 2009 3:07 PM

A laptop full of images of former hospice residents and a projector to show them was stolen Wednesday from a Maple Ridge church.

The theft from St. George’s Anglican Church was the latest in a string of burglaries to hit Christian congregations across Maple Ridge in the past month.

“People don’t feel safe in a place of worship. That’s the affect of these things,” said Rev. Roger Cooper of St. George’s.

The laptop, stolen between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., contained photographs for a slideshow that was scheduled to be shown during the church’s annual “Time to Remember” ceremony – a candlelit service organized by the Ridge Meadows Hospice to honour loved ones who passed away during the year.

There were signs announcing the ceremony on the church door.

“I don’t think the person who did this really cared,” Cooper said.

It’s the second theft at St. George’s in two months. In the first, someone stole items out of boxes collected for Operation Christmas Child.

Ron O’Handley was at Wednesday’s service to honour his father who passed away in June after a courageous battle with cancer. He was looking forward to the memorial slide show.

“How could anyone come into a church and steal?” he asks. “I only hope that this individual understands the full extent to what they have done, and how many lives this senseless act has affected.

“I do know one thing for sure ... even though part of our evening was stolen from us, no one will ever be able to steal the memories that we hold in our hearts of all the loved ones that we have lost.”

Police have arrested a 42-year-old man for breaking into St. Andrew’s United Church on Nov. 22, but are still investigating if he is connected with another theft from the Maple Ridge Christian Reform Church on Nov. 12, where a guitar, electric piano keyboard and a laptop computer were stolen