CALIFORNIA COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/12/burglary-laptops-solana-beach-school/

Thieves steal dozens of computers from school

By J. Harry Jones8:08 A.M.JAN. 12, 2013

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SOLANA BEACH — Thieves made off with two dozen Apple laptop computers Friday night after breaking into a Solana Beach elementary school. It was the third such incident in Encinitas in the last two weeks.

Authorities said shortly before midnight sheriff’s deputies responded to a ringing burglar alarm at Skyline Elementary School on Lomas Santa Fe Drive. There they found a classroom window had been broken.

The school was searched but no suspects were found.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Joe Passalacqua said in a news release that the thieves apparently entered the classroom, broke the locks off two storage cabinets, and stole the computers that have an estimated value of $36,000.

Two Cardiff schools were burglarized in the same way on Dec. 30 and 31. About a dozen iPads valued at $6,360 were stolen from Cardiff Elementary School, and another dozen valued at $12,360 were stolen a day later from nearby Ada W. Harris Elementary School.

NEW MEXICO COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/thieves-help-selves-to-aps-electronics

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Thieves help selves to APS electronics

Updated: Thursday, 30 Aug 2012, 7:48 PM MDT
Published : Thursday, 30 Aug 2012, 7:48 PM MDT

• Ian Schwartz 

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Crooks are looting Albuquerque schools for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods, and this year was even worse than last year.

It was another rough school year as thieves made off with more than $260,000 in computers and other equipment from Albuquerque Public Schools campuses.

Again and again computers are what crooks are after.

"This last year we were about $33,000 more than we were in the past," APS Operations Officer Brad Winter told KRQE News 13. "We had someone that broke into the portable and stole like 30 iPads at one time."

That iPad heist was at Mountain View Elementary School in May when someone went into an unlocked portable, broke open the iPad cabinet and stole more than $20,000 worth of the tablets.

Winter had told teachers before they were not supposed to leave electronics in the portables. The teachers got a reminder after the pricey theft to keep them in the main building, he added.

"Every one of our school are alarmed," Winter said. "They are alarmed, and we monitor the alarms."

But a lot of the thefts are in the evening when janitors are still in the building and the alarms aren't on yet.

So who would know when the alarms are on or off? An APS source said someone on the inside.

Which is exactly what happened in October when someone stole more than $20,000 worth of computers at Tomasita Elementary School.

Winter said APS is performing an audit to see where they are going wrong so they can protect the schools from more costly thefts.

APS police officers will also set up tactical plans to heavily patrol the schools during the evening and at night.

APS couldn't say how many people have been arrested or charged in connection with these cases. However, a significant number of the cases are unsolved.

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BERKELEY

79 computers stolen from UC Berkeley

Computers are the big deal on the UC Berkeley campus this summer -- if you happen to be a thief.

UC Berkeley police are investigating the theft of 29 iPads and one Android tablet computer from Lawrence Hall of Science, a theft valued at over $13,000.

While officials from the science hall reported the theft on Monday, the crime occurred sometime between June 15 and Aug. 10, according to a police report.

The theft of the iPads comes after police in late July arrested a UC Berkeley graduate student and another person in the theft of 39 desktop computers from Mulford Hall on campus.

Police said they tracked down the suspects through an online sales site listing one of the stolen computers.

Also in July, 10 laptop computers were stolen from the Foothill housing complex, UC police said in a report, but police have not reported any resolution to that crime.

-- Doug Oakley, Staff

CALIFORNIA COMPUTERS STOLEN http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/28/thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-electronics-stolen-from-campus/

Thousands of dollars worth of electronics stolen from campus

BY CHLOE HUNT | STAFF

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Twenty-nine iPads were reported stolen from the Lawrence Hall of Science Monday, a grand theft that, along with other stolen electronics, amounts to more than $13,000 in lost goods.

Along with the iPads, an Android electronic tablet and a set of headphones were stolen between June 15 and Aug. 10, according to the UCPD crime logs. The electronics are most likely campus property from the Lawrence Hall of Science, according to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode.

In previous incidents, UCPD was able to track down stolen merchandise through Craigslist and other websites, but DeCoulode said that fewer people are selling stolen items on internet sales websites than in the past.

Checking on such websites is “kind of a shot in the dark,” DeCoulode said.

In July, UCPD recovered 39 computers stolen from Mulford Hall after computers were stolen in two separate incidents occurring between July 12 and July 15.

DeCoulode said more information on this set of stolen electronics will become available as the investigation continues.

Chloe Hunt is the lead crime reporter. Contact her atcthunt@dailycal.org.