MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KTLA) — About 60 iPads were stolen from a Manhattan Beach elementary school and police are hoping surveillance video will help them catch the suspects.
The burglary took place Sunday morning at Pacific Elementary School at 1200 Pacific Avenue.
The suspects, believed to be two men and a woman, reportedly broke into two fifth-grade classrooms after climbing over the school’s fence.
The thieves used bolt cutters to gain access to the iPads which were locked in a cart.
“They were housed in an iPad cart,” said Deputy Superintendent Rick Bagley.
“We can use it to charge them all, to do uploads, downloads, that kind of thing with them. So they were all in there. They were locked. One of the locks was cut off.”
The stolen iPads were donated by the PTA.
4 Comments to “Thieves Steal Dozens of iPads From Elementary School”
January 31, 2013 at 2:57 PM
How awful! I hope the police catch the thieves! The kids love these for learning.
January 31, 2013 at 3:20 PM
Got some serious issues. Please be a little more considerate of children while performing illegal line of work.
January 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM
So sad for the poor students who used these daily. I really hope someone in the community donates to replace them, after all it was in Manhattan Beach.
January 31, 2013 at 4:49 PM
They can be tracked easily.