Last week, someone broke into a classroom at Garfield Elementary School and stole $200 from a class treasury. While the loss was significant, Garfield administrators said it paled in comparison to a second strike Thursday night. This time, thieves made off with 32 brand-new Apple Macintosh laptop computers.
"What really gets me is most people wouldn't run up to a kid and grab a cookie out of their hand. These computers were for students and children. The people who took them stole from children," Garfield principal Anne Birchfield said.
Birchfield said the crooks clearly knew what they were doing, using power tools to break in the mobile computer lab and make off with the computers in less than five minutes. The computers were worth nearly $35,000, Birchfield said.
The school put out a special phone message to parents Friday, asking anyone to keep an eye out for anything suspicious or anyone trying to sell a large quantity of computers.
Sacramento County Sheriff's investigators are looking into the theft.
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