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Thomas: Most Molino Park Stolen Tech Items Will Ultimately Be Replaced
August 16, 2013
Tens of thousands of dollars — that’s the price tag Escambia County School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas is putting on the electronic items stolen last weekend from Molino Park Elementary School. An official inventory is still underway to determine what was stolen as the school was burglarized and vandalized Friday night.
“It was a significant number of items for a school the size of Molino Park,” he said. So far, officials have said that multiple Apple computers, Macbooks, iPads and two Wii game consoles were taken.
To see the surveillance video, click here.
Thomas said Thursday that the school district will take that full inventory and decide their next step toward replacing at least most of the technology items.
“We will first give it a matter of a few weeks to see if the Sheriff’s Office might recover some or all of the items,” he said. “If not, we will find a way to make it right for the students.”
The district will first explore any insurance availability, then look at other options — including a general fund expenditure — to replace the items. The entire process to find funding and order the missing items, will be time consuming, Thomas said, and may mean Molino Park will be without the stolen technology until early next year.
Anyone with any information about the crime is asked to call Gulf Coast Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP or the Escambia Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620. Crime Stoppers callers can remain anonymous and did not have to give their name.
Pictured top: An empty spot marks the locations of a stolen Apple computer from a Molino Park Elementary School classroom. Pictured inset: Pictured below: Three Apple computers were stolen from this desk in a computer lab. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Thomas: Most Molino Park Stolen Tech Items Will Ultimately Be Replaced”
I will be willing to bet these kids parents “KNOW” exactly who they are!! The clothes should be a dead give away as to the identity. I know what my kids wear!!
This is so sad. these people will even steal the things that keep kids grow. Whoever did this should be horse whipped, and then sent straight to jail.
Sad, Sad, Sad
Are we finally ready to put simple motion sensors in, at least parts, of the schools that alarm?
They would cost no more than the cost of just this years losses from repairs much less the loss of equipment damaged or uncovered. In business if an alarm system costs less than two years of average losses its worth doing.
Hope they can fine all things.Get them back & school for the kids.
That’s as low as you can get.To take away from a school.You are as sorry as sorry can get.Low man Hope they fine you & you get all that’s coming tooooooo you??????????