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> No Funds to Replace Schools' Stolen Computers
> With slashed budgets, two Peoria public schools can't afford to
> replace nine of the 45 computers stolen during the summer. Peoria
> police detectives arrested two juveniles last month and charged them
> with stealing $100,000 worth of electronic equipment from Desert
> Harbor and Coyote Hills elementary schools. The "Peoria Times" says
> both boys, who are now 17, are also accused of causing $9,500 in
> property damage at the two schools and $200 in damages at a nearby
> specialty game store they allegedly broke into. The detectives say
> they linked the two suspects from the store burglary to the burglary
> at the schools. Authorities say most of the stolen schools' equipment
> and store merchandise was recovered at the boys' residences.
>
> PEORIA
It doesn't state how many computers were recovered, how many computers
are held as evidence, etc. Just states that the two Peoria public
schools can't replace nine of them.
der.hans wrote:
>Am 17. Oct, 2003 schwätzte Augie Grayfox so:
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>>Helping is Good...however,
>>The computers were recovered by the Peoria Police.
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>It doesn't say all of the computers were recovered. Hmm, article's not there
>and I don't see a way to pull up old articles. If I remember correctly 30
>computers were stolen, but the school is now 9 computers short. That makes
>me think 9 or the 30 computers weren't recovered.
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>>They need to return them to the school. According to what's been reported to
>>the media, they should have plenty of evidence to get convictions on the
>>looney toons that stole 'em.
>>The PD should make sure they don't victimize the school again and deprive
>>those kids of their education, instead of "we're just doing our job."
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>Looks like they might've actually done so if the school is only down the 9
>computers.
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>>Had a friend whose home computer had been involved in some bad stuff by
>>supposed 'friends.' LSS
>>LongStoryShort: The bad guys were convicted the pc had been entered as
>>evidence, but because of appeals, police kept her pc for almost three yrs.
>>Just aint right!
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>It's not the cops. It's the defence lawyers and non-tech-savvy justice
>system.
>
>Ernie, www.Linux-Forensics.com, posted a query on how to view the data on
>hard drives without changing anything because changing a single bit on the
>hard drive will get it banned as evidence.
>
>What does the boot sector have to do with the email content saved to the
>drive? The swap sector? That's like saying all the evidence in a house is
>not admissable because someone opened the refrigerator door. There might be
>cases where that's true, but it isn't the general case.
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
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