MaSci Burglarized

Got this from a batchmate. Weird incident.

Manila Science high school burglarized–Books, computer equipment looted

By Jeannette Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 17:31:00 04/14/2009

Filed Under: Robbery and theft, Crime
MANILA, Philippines—The Manila Science High School (MaSci) building was burglarized Monday by thieves who looted the school of a large stack of science books and computer equipment.

Manila Police District (MPD) investigators said the school lost 10 Physics books; 6 Biology books; and an Organic Chemistry book—all estimated to cost P16,000—to the burglars, who broke into the science training room at the second floor of the MaSci building at the corner of Taft Avenue and Padre Faura Street in Ermita.

The robbers also took some P30,000 worth of computer equipment, including monitors, a processor, and a DVD-ROM drive.

PO2 Eugene Quilates, case investigator of the MPD Ermita police station 5, said in his report that the robbery could have happened sometime between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, with school out for the summer.

He pointed out that Ferdinand Bautista, the science department officer-in-charge, only discovered the break-in at around 5 p.m. when he and a colleague went to the science training room and found the door ajar.

A subsequent inventory, Quilates said, revealed several books missing from the shelves and electronic equipment cannibalized of their parts.

MPD Station 5 operatives are conducting follow-up operations for the identification of the burglars and the possible recovery of the stolen items.

 

Those books are really bulky (Campbell’s Biology, er, is like a med reference book in size), I can’t imagine how those thieves got away with that load. Did they just walk away like that in Taft Ave. in broad daylight (8 a.m. and 3 p.m.)? Something smells fishy…