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CHELP burglarized for second time in a week

By H&R staff | Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:00 am | No Comments Posted

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DECATUR - Four days after a burglar or burglars stole computers and other items from Community Home Environmental Learning Project, they did it again.

"The first time was bad. The second time was unbelievable," CHELP Executive Director Diane Drew said. "How can this keep happening to us?"

Between 5 p.m. Sunday and 6:50 a.m. Monday, the offices of CHELP, 1429 N. Jasper St., were burglarized. The building also was burglarized Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

"They took three more computers that they knew were here after the first time," Drew said. "They broke in another window in the basement. It was pretty much the same thing. Pried off the iron bars, cut the screen, broke a window and came on in."

In the earlier incident, items stolen included three computers and toilet paper. They also took more toilet paper during the second incident.

Drew said she is planning to have a new alarm system installed soon. The alarm system at CHELP was disabled during the break-in.

Drew hopes the crime will be solved.

"I keep hoping someone will call in a tip to CrimeStoppers," she said.

Anyone with information about the robbery can call Decatur police at 424-2734 or CrimeStoppers at 423-8477.