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Fairfield police and Sacred Heart University security were looking into a pair of laptop thefts that occurred Tuesday afternoon in the school's library. At about 2 p.m., a female SHU student reported her IBM laptop was stolen from a cubicle while she was studying. The woman said she stepped outside to make a phone call and when she returned less than 10 minutes later the computer was missing.
Later that same afternoon, just before 4 p.m., a male student studying in the same library reported a similar incident. As in the other theft, he left his MacBook Pro unattended for 20 minutes to make a call, and it was gone when he returned.
Sacred Heart security has no video surveillance from the library Tuesday afternoon because of construction. Fairfield police were investigating the thefts.
Also from the police blotter:
? A tip from a suspicious neighbor led to the recovery of a vehicle stolen from Derby on Tuesday afternoon. An Unquowa Road resident called Fairfield police to report a damaged Honda Civic parked in front of her home. When officers checked the car, they found severe damage to its steering wheel and column, the ignition, the headlights and lower front molding. The radio was also missing. Fairfield police arranged to have the car towed to Derby and handed the investigation over to Derby police.
? A Fairfield mother called police to report what she deemed "slander" against her daughter on Facebook. According to the resident, she found pictures of the 17-year-old girl posted by an account linked to a fake name. She suspected the girl's ex-boyfriend was the culprit, but the matter was still under investigation.
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