MANITOBA COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM SCHOOLSWinnipeg Sun: NEWS - Arrested for serial break-insArrested for serial break-ins

School hit 4 times

By DEAN PRITCHARD, STAFF REPORTER

Some quick thinking by a school custodian helped police arrest a suspect who used a North End school as his personal shopping mall. Police have arrested a 22-year-old Winnipeg man in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars in computer equipment from four break-ins at Robertson School over the course of two weeks.

"You'd have to ask him why he kept on going back," said Winnipeg Police Service spokeswoman Const. Shelly Glover. "Four times back to the same place, that is pretty unusual."

THREATENED CARETAKER

Police arrested a suspect Nov. 26 after a man armed with a metal bar broke into the Robertson Street school shortly before 11 p.m. and confronted a female caretaker. After threatening the woman with the bar, she gave up her school keys and was forced to help him dismantle and remove several pieces of computer equipment from the building.

"She didn't want to help but he kept threatening her," Glover said.

While the man was taking computer equipment through one of the school doors, the woman slammed the door behind him, ran away, and called police, Glover said.

A police dog unit followed a trail to a nearby home on Dalton Street where a suspect was arrested. Police recovered computer equipment at the home identified as property of the school. The school had lost computer equipment in three prior break-ins dating back to Nov. 10.
Greg Pozniak has been charged with breaking and entering and committing robbery, wearing a disguise with intent, three counts of break, enter and theft, forcible confinement, possession of a dangerous weapon and three counts of failing to comply with a recognizance