CALLIFORNIA COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM SCHOOL TWICE IN TWO WEEKS Thieves hit Narbonne consecutive weekends:
Thieves hit Narbonne consecutive weekends

The Harbor City high school campus loses more than $40,000 in computers and other electronic equipment, as well as software.

By Paul Clinton
Daily Breeze

Los Angeles school police are investigating two thefts of computers and laptop equipment valued at more than $40,000 at Narbonne High School on successive weekends.

School officials discovered the thefts when classes returned to session Dec. 4 and Nov. 27. Attempts to reach Principal Linda Kay or Assistant Principal Kevin Kennedy (assigned to oversee security at the school) were unsuccessful. Kay did not return calls.

Thieves stole seven laptop computers from a storage room adjacent to the school cafeteria over the Thanksgiving weekend, Los Angles School Police Lt. Stephen Dodson said. They are valued at $7,000.

A week later, thieves orchestrated a far bolder theft by breaking into the audiovisual classroom and making off with several camcorders, computers, DVD players, monitors and software. That equipment was worth $34,000, Dodson said.

The school uses the equipment for a film component of its School of Visual Arts and Humanities, a specialized school at the Harbor City campus. Narbonne High is at 24300 S. Western Ave.

Police have not identified a suspect and an investigation into the thefts is ongoing