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4 Juveniles Nabbed After Largo School Burglary

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Detective Corey Monaghan bags recovered computers.

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By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 17, 2008

Updated: 01/17/2008 05:23 pm

LARGO - Three teenagers and an 11-year-old boy have been arrested on charges they broke into Frontier Elementary School over the weekend and stole 14 laptop computers and a video projector, police said.

The property is worth more than $26,000, said Lt. Mike Loux of the Largo Police Department.

The four – whom the Tribune and TBO.com will not identify because they are juveniles – broke a window of a portable classroom at the school, 6995 Hopedale Lane, Loux said.

Over two days, they went back and forth to the school to retrieve the computers, Detective Corey Monaghan said.

One of the four, a 16-year-old girl who attends Palm Harbor University High School, reformatted the laptops, and all four planned to sell them on the street, Monaghan said. They didn't want to sell them online because they didn't want to get caught, Monaghan said.

The other three – another 16-year-old girl and two brothers, ages 15 and 11 – attend Seminole Middle School, Monaghan said. They were from the Frontier Elementary School neighborhood.

Each was charged with burglary, Loux said. All the property was recovered.

Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.

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