A burglary in Fairfield has left a local computer store $20,000 in the hole.
Around 5:25 a.m. Sunday morning two thieves broke into EB Computers at 1827 Fairfield Rd., walking away with 20 laptops, both PC and Mac.
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Wowryk said that theyB次元官网网址檇 had a low-resolution surveillance camera in place, and that he and some staff members watched the recording to see the thieves at work, before an unfortunate automatic schedule wiped the data from the system.
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Wowryk said they called police when the robbery was discovered Sunday morning, but they did not arrive until Monday afternoon.
Consequently, several other people had to come into the shop Sunday night to replace the lock and install better security features so that EB Computers could open for business Monday morning.
Victoria Police were able to confirm the incident and that they did visit later on Monday.
B次元官网网址淒ue to call load and other priority calls, we were unable to attend until the afternoon on December 17th,B次元官网网址� said Victoria Police Spokesperson Const. Matt Rutherford in an emailed response. B次元官网网址淲hile we make every effort to attend every call promptly, lower priority calls sometimes have a delay. We have seen this delay getting longer and longer and that is one of the reasons why weB次元官网网址檝e requested additional resources both last year, and this year.B次元官网网址�
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Wowryk said the store does have insurance that will hopefully cover the loss, but that itB次元官网网址檚 a devastating time for the theft to happen just before Christmas.
He also warned other store owners to be wary about potentially similar incidents.
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