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$83,000 stolen from
The Pyramid
By Greg Smith
On-line Forty-Niner
University Police
are investigating a break-in at The Pyramid box office in
which unknown suspects stole close to $83,000 from a locked
safe, said Capt. Stan Skipworth. The break-in took place sometime
over an 18-hour period between March 3 and 4.
The Pyramid is an athletic center used for both sports and
special events by the university. Over the weeks leading up
to the break-in, numerous events had taken place in The Pyramid,
including basketball games, but no receipt deposits had been
made.
The safe was located in a recessed room adjacent to the main
box-office Skipworth said.
"That area was violated and the safe, for all intensive
purposes, was attacked," Skipworth said.
The burglars used a crow bar or some other prying tool to
gain access to the safe Skipworth said. It is still unknown
how the burglars entered The Pyramid or the interior business
offices.
Pyramid employees discovered the burglary at 9 a.m. on March
4, Skipworth said, and University Police immediately began
investigating. Employees also discovered an interior door
that was ajar but Skipworth said that the door could have
been left open for many reasons.
University Police sent initial evidence from the scene to
its crime lab for fingerprint analysis, but Skipworth said
no matches have been found yet.
It is not known whether current or former CSULB students or
employees were involved in the burglary, Skipworth said.
"As of right now, we are kind of approaching this from
a dual format," Skipworth said. "We are looking
at it from the context that it was someone completely unaffiliated
with the university and it might have been someone who had
past and prior knowledge of some of the inner workings of
The Pyramid.
"The truth is that it was a break-in and the type of
break-in that it was, it wouldn't have to rely completely
upon personal knowledge of The Pyramid or any portion therein,"
Skipworth said.
Skipworth said that the investigation is moving slowly forward
so that police can be careful, and diligent. He said that
they are preparing to re-interview some people they are concerned
with, as well as tracking down people that they have yet to
interview.
Early on, University Police had a short list of people that
it was concerned with and Skipworth said that he still has
a lot of confidence in that short list.
"We are taking our time to make sure the evidence we
feel we do have available -- that we can develop that and
make sure it comes through," Skipworth said.
"We want to make sure we have more, as far as a case,
together before we make our next step as far as pursuing an
arrest, a warrant or seizing an opportunity to do a more in-depth
interview with the short list of people that we have."
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