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Laptops worth $25K stolen from music school
Fifteen netbook laptops worth $25,000 were stolen from the Girard Academic Music Program magnet school some time between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, police said.
The computers were locked in a mobile cabinet designed to recharge them overnight, police said. A padlock on the cabinet was cut and the laptops and batteries were removed from the school at 2136 Ritner St., some time between 3:30 p.m. on Monday and 7 a.m. on Tuesday. School officials reported the incident to police on Tuesday.
The incident is among a rash of such thefts at city schools in the last year.
Earlier this month, a fifth-grade teacher and her former husband were charged with stealing 42 laptops from the Ethan Allen School in Northeast Philadelphia and selling them to a Kensington pawnshop.
In the summer, a pair of thieves wearing dust masks stole $13,600 worth of computers from two city elementary school by posing as painters.
Last school year, $615,000 in computers were stolen from the district, according to an internal document obtained by The Inquirer.
The computers were locked in a mobile cabinet designed to recharge them overnight, police said. A padlock on the cabinet was cut and the laptops and batteries were removed from the school at 2136 Ritner St., some time between 3:30 p.m. on Monday and 7 a.m. on Tuesday. School officials reported the incident to police on Tuesday.
The incident is among a rash of such thefts at city schools in the last year.
Earlier this month, a fifth-grade teacher and her former husband were charged with stealing 42 laptops from the Ethan Allen School in Northeast Philadelphia and selling them to a Kensington pawnshop.
In the summer, a pair of thieves wearing dust masks stole $13,600 worth of computers from two city elementary school by posing as painters.
Last school year, $615,000 in computers were stolen from the district, according to an internal document obtained by The Inquirer.
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