Crime Log - October 23, 2007

Petty Theft
Oct. 15, 1:13 p.m.
Officer Durian went to Frericks Center the afternoon of Oct. 15 regarding a theft. He met the complainant, a UD employee, who said that Oct. 9 around 11:00 a.m. he had put a Dazzle DVD recorder in a locked storage room. Oct. 15 when he returned to retrieve it around 1:00 p.m. and saw that it was missing from its box. He checked with everyone in his office that has access to the storage room and no one had the recorder. It is valued at $40.

Theft
Oct. 16, 8:13 a.m.
Officer Parmenter reported that he met with a complainant in Frericks Center regarding the theft of a laptop computer and video card. The UD basketball coach said that sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Oct. 16 someone had gotten into the locked office in the PAC and taken the two items missing. The laptop is a Dell Latitude model and valued at $3,000. The Magna PCI video capturing card is valued at $300. The victim did not immediately have either of the serial numbers available. He had been working late the night before and hadn't left until 12:20 a.m. He placed the computer and other pieces of equipment on a cart inside of the room. He turned off the lights and checked all doors before he left. Only two other coaches have keys to the room and he had already checked with them to see if they had taken the equipment; they had not. The only other people with a key to the room are the cleaning personnel.

Theft
Oct. 16, 4:10 p.m.
Sergeant White went to Kettering Labs Annex regarding a theft on the UD campus. He met with a UDRI research engineer who stated that his laptop had been taking from his desk. Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. the engineer had been out of his unlocked office. There may have been other employees in the adjoining office during that time, but his is situated so that anyone entering to take something cannot be seen. Upon returning to his office, the victim noticed his Ethernet cord lying across his desk. No computer was attached to it and its power cord was also missing. The computer is a silver and white Dell Inspiron 6400 and belongs to the UDRI. There was no thumb drive in the computer and no disk inside. It is estimated at $1,600. The victim does not know the serial number or UDRI tag number for the computer. There are no surveillance cameras in the annex of Kettering Labs. Nothing else is missing from the office.