FLORIDA COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM ACCOUNTING FIRM AS WELL AS NUMEROUS LOCATIONS MiamiHerald.com | 01/14/2007 | 10 laptops stolen from Weston office:
Posted on Sun, Jan. 14, 2007

POLICE REPORT
10 laptops stolen from Weston office

Burglars celebrated the holiday by ransacking a Weston business.

Grant Thornton Accounting, 2700 S. Commerce Pkwy., closed for the Christmas holiday between 3 p.m. Dec. 22 and 8:20 a.m. Dec. 26.

Burglars took advantage of the opportunity by prying open stairway doors and the door across from the main entrance. They opened at least four office doors and a storage closet and went through drawers in the cubicles.

They ended up with at least 10 Dell laptop computers. Six were stolen from the storage closet, two from cubicles and two from offices.

They also made off with a large projection TV from a conference room.

DAVIE

Laptop taken: Someone stole a Dell laptop computer from an office at the Health Professional Building at Nova Southeastern University, 3200 S. University Dr., between 5 p.m. Dec. 28 and 11:25 a.m. Jan. 3. The laptop, valued at $1,000, was hidden behind a copy machine.

Town Hall theft: Someone stole a town of Davie laptop computer from the floor beside Town Council member Bryan Caletka's desk at Davie Town Hall, 6591 Orange Dr., between 10 p.m. Dec. 9 and 3 p.m. Dec. 18. The Dell laptop was valued at $2,197.

PLANTATION

Thieves lose laptop loot: Two men entered Radio Shack, 8000 W. Broward Blvd., in The Broward Mall, about 6:40 p.m. Dec. 15. Each selected a laptop display box containing a Hewlett-Packard laptop computer/camera/printer combination and left the store without paying. With an off-duty police officer in pursuit, one man ran west and dropped his box on the east side of University Drive. The other man ran west and dropped his box in the mall parking lot. Neither was caught. The recovered merchandise was priced at $1,999.98.