LDS Church Burglarized
Danny Robinson
Sometime after 2 a.m. yesterday morning a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located at 1600 East and 900 North in Logan was burglarized.
Bob Knotz, manager of the church Physical Management Department, arrived first on the scene around 6 a.m. yesterday morning. Knotz manages the physical aspect of 4 other church buildings, and was hoping to get an early start on replacing some ceiling tiles in the meetinghouse. When he arrived he noticed something strange, the outer door to the building which is normally locked, was already opened. As Knotz walked in he noticed two shattered computer monitors lying on the floor. “It was obvious something was wrong” Knotz said “I immediately called the police”.
Sherriff Deputy Geoffrey Hasty, of the Logan City Sheriff’s Department responded to the call. Deputy Hasty told us that there were at least two individuals involved in the crime. One suspect found a way into the building thru an open window located in the church’s Bishops Office, then unlocked one of the outside doors to let an accomplice in. The window the suspect entered through was left open the night before by Bishop Larry Shirk, the Bishop of the congregation. Bishop Shirk had opened the window as he finished some late meetings with members of his congregation, to listen to the rain outside. When it came time for Shirk and his counselor to check windows, doors, and lock up the building (around 11 p.m.), his office window went unchecked. “This is my fault”, Shirk said, “I left the window open”. Shirk went on to say, “I’m just glad nobody was in the building, these may have been very desperate individuals”.
Evelyn Breathwaite, whose home is directly behind the church , said she was woken up by the sound of breaking glass around 2:20 a.m. but had dismissed the noise for a garbage truck and went back to sleep. Mrs. Breathwaite has lived in her home for over 50 years, and says she has never known anything like this to happen. “The church is here to do good, to have things stolen from a charity type organization is a horrible thing”.
According to Deputy Hasty, two CPU’s were stolen out of the bishop’s office; the monitors to those computers were left broken close to one of the doors where Knotz found them. Between the damage of the monitors and the taking of the two computers, it’s estimated that a value over $600 was lost. Police are optimistic about finding the perpetrators. Through what Hasty calls “ample fingerprints” and the use of the departments K-9 units the police already have suspects. “We have two persons of interest at this time” Hasty said, “but we are not yet releasing names”.
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2 comments:
I liked your story. I didn’t need to work very hard to follow it. The piece was organized, but could be a little more succinct.
I think that you have a good understanding of AP style except for a couple of small things. I think that the part that said “4 other church buildings” could have been “four other meetinghouses”.
I’m being a bit picky though, though.
Good job, I thought you used the quotes very efficiently. The only mistake i saw as well was not writing out the four. Maybe let it be known a little sooner what had happened, cause you let it known that the two broke into the church house but it wasn't til the last paragraph that it was mentioned that they stole the computers. But thats just me. It was written very well and you did get all the information in so good job.
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