Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone broke into the offices, stole secret formulas and erased computer files. Police went to Barton's home and arrested him on a burglary charge. However, according to a report at the time, a detective investigating the case believed the burglary "was not intended for the theft of the product formula but to hide kickbacks, discrepancies in inventory or the possible sale of chemicals for drug activity." The same day a TLC board member called the police to say, without elaboration, that the company had reached an agreement with Barton. The charges were dropped...
...states and the District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment for misbehavior like petty theft. Sentences can mean community service, such as collecting trash...
...treatment of the Ku Klux Klan was even more troubling. According to the museum, the actions of the Klan were morally equivalent to those of Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg...
Currier residents are notified that $12,000 is missing from the House Committee's funds. Natalie J. Szekeres '97 is implicated in the theft, and in March, $12,000 is anonymously returned to the House. Following the restitution of the money, the University declines to prosecute Szekeres...
Crime 1997 1998 %Change Stranger Rape 0 0 0 Acquaintance Rape 3 5 67 Robbery 6 6 0 Aggravated Assault 17 21 24 Simple Assault 5 2 -60 Burglary 69 59 -14 Larceny Bicycle 226 158 -30 Larceny/All Other 648 512 -21 Motor Vehicle Theft 5 6 20 Vandalism 76 54 -29 Total Crime 1,310 1,037 -21 Source: Harvard Police Department