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DAVE; I read the article...I am glad the police department was able to recover merchandise and return it to the school department...What we don't know is if this merchandise was still sitting in the garage or elsewhere, in its original packaging, or had it already been installed and therefore is now used equipment. My foggy memory tells me there was a similar case involving a DPW employee removing city owned equipment from the garage and miraculously avoided being charged with a far more serious count...Result, got all his back pay and got to keep his job. A conviction on the more serious charge would have yielded a different outcome...Call me a doubting Thomas, but I have seen far too many cases similar to these simply end up falling between the cracks or yielding a tap in the nose with a rolled up newspaper for punishment.