FLORIDA COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM CONFERENCE ROOM MiamiHerald.com 02/26/2006 Laptops stolen as auditors lunched: "on Sun, Feb. 26, 2006POLICE REPORTLaptops stolen as auditors lunched

Lunch was costly for accountants in Weston.

A team of auditors from Ernst & Young met Feb. 9 at Beacon Pointe at Weston, 2200 N. Commerce Pkwy.

At noon, they left for lunch, leaving their laptop computers just inside the front door of a conference room.

While they were gone, four Dell laptops, valued at $8,000, were stolen from the room.

A surveillance video showed the last employee left the room at 12:47 p.m.

The door-locking mechanism had a built-in delay that allowed two men to enter the office a minute later without a security swipe.

The video showed the thieves entered the main office at 12:48 and were out of sight in the conference room. They were in the room less than a minute before the tape showed them leaving.

On the video, the backpack of one thief appeared to be full as they exited into the main hall and out of the camera's range. "