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Sunday, November 19, 2006

FLORIDA COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONS MiamiHerald.com 11/19/2006 Low-tech crime uses high-tech tool

A computer tower stolen from one Davie business was used to smash a costly window at another business.

Officers dispatched on an alarm call to United Electronics Corp., 11800 State Road 84, found the glass entrance door shattered about 5 a.m. Nov. 5. The alarm was still sounding and the lights were on.

After entering the business, the burglar shattered another window in the front office and stole a Dell desktop computer tower valued at $1,500.

Between 5:10 and 5:20 a.m., a Dell computer tower was used as a battering ram to smash the front window at RadioShack, 8918 State Road 84, between 5:10 and 5:20 a.m. Nov. 5.

Nothing was stolen from the business but the cost to replace the 16-foot window was estimated at $8,000.

Gun, laptop taken: Between 7 and 10:31 p.m. Nov. 7, someone stole a Dell laptop computer and a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol from the living room of a home in the 11200 block of Sunview Way. The burglar pried open a sliding glass door to get in.

Quick theft:
A man put down a Dell computer tower in the hallway and went inside his apartment in the 4100 block of Southwest 57th Avenue about 6 a.m. Nov. 7. When he returned five minutes, later it was gone. He said it cost him $1,200 when he bought it in 2001.


Laptop, radio taken:
Someone entered an unlocked 2004 Dodge SLT truck in the driveway of a home in the 1600 block of Passion Vine Circle between 10 p.m. Oct. 23 and 6 a.m. Oct. 24 and stole a Dell laptop computer and a satellite radio. The loss was estimated at $1,020.

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