COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM CLASSROOM.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. - Thieves took advantage of an open window at Pico Canyon Elementary School elementary school: see school. over the weekend and helped themselves to electronics used by the school's special day program. Sometime after 7 p.m. Friday and before 7:30 a.m. Monday, two computers and other electronics were stolen from Room 133 at the school in Stevenson Ranch, sheriff's Lt. Brenda Cambra said. ``There was no damage to the classroom and no forced entry,'' she said. Pico Canyon Principal Nancy Copley said that in addition to the computers, a VCR/DVD player and a digital camera were taken. ``The computers are used on a daily basis and the DVD player A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. is used by students for a phonics phonics Method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components. Children learn the sounds of individual letters first, then the sounds of letters in combination and in simple words. program,'' she said, adding that sheriff's deputies had no suspects and were taking fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. . The computers were installed in November. ``We're going to have to rely on some other classrooms and do some sharing,'' Copley said. ``Hopefully, the sheriffs will be able to recover some of the merchandise.'' Carol Rock, (661) 257-5252 carol.rock(at)dailynews.com |
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