Graduates arrested in thefts at school.Byline: Rebecca Rebecca or Rebekah (both: rēbĕk`ə), wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob. One day, as was her custom, she drew water at the city well; while there she showed kindness to Eliezer, Abraham's servant. Nolan The Register-Guard Two Churchill High School graduates were arrested for stealing band equipment from the school and trying to sell it through the online auction service eBay. The suspects, Jonathan Alexander Kawika Hunt, 19, and Brandon Levee levee (lĕv`ē) [Fr.,=raised], embankment built along a river to prevent flooding by high water. Levees are the oldest and the most extensively used method of flood control. Christensen, 18, turned themselves in to police Thursday after officers served a search warrant at Hunt's West 15th Avenue apartment. Inside, police found four flutes, a piccolo piccolo, small transverse flute pitched an octave higher than the standard flute. Its tone is bright and shrill, and it can produce the highest notes in the orchestral range. The piccolo is used in orchestras and especially in military bands. See fife. and an electric guitar stolen April 22 from the school's band room, Eugene police officer Carl Stubbs said. The men - both former members of the school band - were released on citations for felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. first-degree theft, sale of stolen property and computer crimes. They graduated last year, and Hunt is now a student at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . Officers served the warrant just hours before bidding was scheduled to end on at least one of the instruments, said Stubbs, who is Churchill's school resource officer. They were alerted to the eBay advertisements by a band member who found her missing instrument for sale on the Web site. The men told police that they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. "easy money" when they took the instruments and advertised them on eBay, Stubbs said. Police said Christensen visited the school April 22 and chatted with members of the choir choir [O.Fr.] 1 A group of singers; traditionally the chorus organized to sing in a church. Usually, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran choirs are composed of men and boys, but occasionally in these churches and customarily in other Protestant before entering the band room and taking the instruments. He loaded them into his car, which was parked outside, police said. Stubbs believes that they `took the flutes and piccolo because they were small and the guitar because it was in its case." Four of the instruments belonged to students; two others belonged to the school. They are worth an estimated $6,000. Stubbs said Christensen then gave the items to Hunt, who had experience selling things on the Web site. Police got a call from the mother of the girl who saw her own instrument online, and they quickly identified Hunt as the alleged seller. They served the warrant at 9 a.m. Thursday and seized seized (seised) n. 1) having ownership, commonly used in wills as "I give all the property of which I die seized as follows:...." 2) having taken possession of evidence for use in a criminal prosecution. 3) having taken property or a person by force. (See: seisin, seizure) all of the instruments from the apartment. When Hunt returned home, he found the search warrant waiting for him, Stubbs said. He called Christensen and the two men called Stubbs, whom they knew from their time at Churchill. They arranged to turn themselves in that night. "They tried to make light of the situation," Stubbs said. "They did express that if they had known who the victims were, they wouldn't have done it." |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion