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By Arriel Vinson and Ajiya Washington
Broad Ripple High School was on temporary lock down early this morning before school started after an attempted burglary by four people.
One person, a-19-year-old who would have been a senior at Northwest High School but is up for expulsion, was arrested. He was arrested at 4 a.m.at the Adult Processing Center, according to IPS Chief of Police Steve Garner. Three other male suspects escaped.
There were attempted thefts of computers from the media center but nothing was stolen, according to Principal Linda Davis. Two media communications teachers, Kathy Jesse and Michelle Schantz, had their rooms were tampered with. The window on the media center door was also broken.
Ms. Davis assumed that it might be tied to computer thefts earlier in the school year.
The 19-year-old will be charged with criminal trespassing, burglary and resisting law enforcement.
Early this morning, a helicopter hovered above the school to look for possible suspects. News stations were recording and interviewing students as they walked from the buses.
Ms. Davis said, “IPS police and IMPD were here from 4 a.m. and on. People were in the building and the alarm went off, which notified the school police downtown.”
Suspects came in through the south side of the building near the gym parking lot.
Teachers were to do inventory and e-mail IPS Sgt. Mark Driskell if anything was stolen.
Bruce MacAllister, a humanities teacher, said he arrived at school at 6:15 a.m. He parked by the Compton Street doors and came in with his teacher ID. After MacAllister went to his classroom, he went to make copies and put on a pot of coffee in the break room. While the copies were running, he went to the main office to sign in. MacAllister saw two female police officers outside the building door. He opened the door, and the officers questioned him on how he got in the building and what he was doing there.
They walked him back to his car. MacAllister came back around 7:10 a.m.
Students were not too happy. Some were tweeting about the situation.
Cayla Richmond tweeted, “It’s a student who took it, apparently. Who else would know what we got?”
Chandler Vance also was worried and was happy no more of Adam Webb’s computers were stolen. Thieves took two of Webb’s Mac desktop monitors and hard drives over winter break.
Late last semester, 14 student Netbooks and several MacBooks were stolen from students and staff, in lockers and in classrooms. The MacBooks were worth about $1,500 apiece. Students have to pay for the cost of the Netbooks, even if they were stolen, according to former Vice-Principal Stanley Law.
In an earlier interview on Fox 59 TV, IPS Police Chief Garner said it would not be easy to remove the information that identifies a computer as the property of IPS. He said that it is etched into the machine. “You’d have to tear the cover off the machine.”
He said computer theft has been a big problem at IPS schools this year. “It happens a lot,” said Garner.

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