Two thefts that occurred on the Bowdoin campus last year remain unsolved, despite the detailed available information on them. Three laptop computers stolen last August and artwork stolen in October have not yet been recovered, nor have the perpetrators been identified despite leads on both thefts, Director of Security Bruce Boucher said.
The artwork was stolen on two dates in October from the Visual Arts Center (VAC). Security provided the Brunswick police with the exact timeframe of the first robbery: between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on October 1. A large drawing was taken three days later.
The three laptops, valued collectively at about $6,000, were stolen from suites in Coles Tower between 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on August 30.
Surveillance cameras in the Tower lobby captured the two thieves leaving with the stolen laptops. Despite clear pictures of the criminals in the act, they have yet to be identified or questioned. "We still do not know who those individuals are," said Boucher.
The closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in the Tower lobby are not the only ones on campus. Since 1987, there have been cameras installed at various locations around Bowdoin. Boucher noted that the old analog CCTV had been modernized to all-digital system in the past months.
With regard to recent robberies on campus, Boucher was happy about a trend he hoped would be long-lived: "We had no reported thefts over break."