ARKANSAS COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM SCHOOL Times Record


Computer Theft Reported At School
Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:50 AM CDT

Times Record Staff

Multiple computers were reportedly stolen from a local elementary school in a burglary believed to have occurred sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

An employee of Morrison Elementary School, 3415 Newton Road, contacted police and reported that someone had broken into classrooms behind the school’s main building and stolen four Dell computers and a Hewlett Packard printer, according to a police report.

One or more suspects gained entry into the classrooms by jerking open a door at the west end of the building. Cigarette butts believed to have been left behind by a burglar were found in a classroom and at a gate at the corner of the school lunch room. Pry marks, which appeared to be made with a screwdriver, were found on one of the doors, according to the report.

The computer equipment was likely lifted over the school fence and hauled away in a vehicle, the report states.

Police were told that two Dell GX270 computers, each valued at $1,000, a Dell GX260 valued at $1,076, a Dell GX240 valued at $1,251 and Hewlett Packard X3 printer valued at $270 were stolen in the burglary, the report states.