Suspects Sought in Office Burglary

Police are still looking for suspects in an office burglary committed earlier this month after tenants reported a large amount of cash, personal checks and a computer hard drive missing.

According to the report, police responded to an office building at 2741 W. Layton Ave. after some of its occupants reported their suites has been broken into between 7 p.m. Aug. 13 and 7 a.m. Aug. 14.

An attorney in the building told police the door to his first-floor office had been kicked in, hard enough that the door knob put a hole in the wall behind the door. The tenant, however, reported nothing missing.

Officers then went to two doctor office suites on the second floor. At one, employees reported more than two-dozen patient checks ranging from $3 to $141 were taken from a metal lock box that was in a drawer. Nearly $650 in cash from a moneybag, and $50 from an envelope was also missing.

In another doctor’s suite, the backup hard drive containing patients’ personal information was reportedly missing.

Officers did not observe any signs of forced entry at the front or rear entrances of the building.

The common hallway on the second floor had two video cameras that were attached to the ceiling and pointed down the hallway. Neither was operational prior to the burglary, but one had a wire removed in an apparent effort to disarm it, and the other had been removed and thrown on a ledge in the hallway.

Greenfield Assistant Police Chief Paul Schlecht said no suspects were in custody as of Aug. 29.