Public Safety averted a potential computer robbery last Friday when a student was caught hoisting computer equipment out of a broken window in Lally Hall.
At approximately 3:35 am, the student dropped the equipment he was carrying after he was spotted by Public Safety Officer Robert Scott and fled the scene.
After calling for assistance, Scott chased the student as he ran up the JEC ramp and down the staircase toward the ’86 Field. The student continued his escape parallel to the field and toward the Quad.
Public Safety Corporal Kevin Storm, Officer George Koch, and Sergeant Joseph Farrell confronted the suspect in the Quad’s courtyard.
Though the suspect struck Koch in the right ear, the Public Safety officers were able to detain him and call Troy Police.
Eddie Knowles, dean of students, authorized the student’s arrest, and the student was later charged with third-degree burglary for attempting to steal a Hewlett-Packard laser printer and paper feed, an IBX data interface, an IBM PC-XT, and a TI-1795 calculator.
A recent array of campus computer thefts led Knowles to be quick in his authorization of the arrest, citing three accounts of campus computer burglary since August 26.
