Cameras, laptops hot in burglaries

Published 12:01 pm Monday, November 15, 2010

Four home burglaries and an auto burglary were reported in Vicksburg over the weekend, police Lt. Bobby Stewart said this morning.

On Sunday, at 11:30 a.m., a Hewlett Packard laptop computer valued at $800 was reported missing from a home in the 100 block of Katherine Drive.

Earlier that morning, just after 7, a Ruger .357 magnum revolver valued at $250, a radar detector valued at $80 and an Olympus digital camera valued at $100 were reported missing from a 1995 Ford F-350 that had been parked in the 1000 block of Fifth North Street. The pickup was unlocked, Stewart said.

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Saturday night, around 10:30, an Acer laptop computer valued at $1,000 and an Olympus digital camera valued at $250 were reported missing from a home in the 300 block of Springridge Drive.

That same evening around 5, a 42-inch LG flat-screen TV valued at $800 was reported missing from a home in the 2600 block of Togo Street.

Friday evening, around 6, a Raven .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol valued at $150 was reported missing from a home in the 1500 block of Ethel Street.