Thursday, January 31, 2008

PNS: Crime

Burglary in local LDS meeting house

Early yesterday morning, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was burglarized. The meetinghouse is located on 900 North and 1600 East in Logan Utah.

Sheriff Deputy, Jeoffery Hasty, said there was no forced entry. He believes two juveniles climbed through a small open window. There were two smashed computer monitors on the floor, and various computer equipment is missing. Right now they are working with finger print evidence to determine the suspects. Hasty said that the case is "pretty cut and dry".

Lawrence (Larry) Shirk is the presiding bishop over the Hillcrest 1st ward which meets in this building. Shirk was the last one to leave the building last night. He had opened up his window for some fresh air and forgot to lock it. Shirk said that luckily all church records had been deleted off the computer equipment stolen, and transferred to newer devices. He left the building around 11:00 p.m.

Robert (Bob) Knotz was the first to arrive at the building. He got there around 6:00 a.m. and promptly called the police. "I’m glad nobody got hurt…I’m excited to get back to my ceiling tiles".

2 comments:

Max K. Young said...

Nice job with your story, it didn't have very many quotes, but still a great job with lots of good information.

usumatty said...

Your story was written well. A few things though, first of all, listen closely to the spelling of names I am pretty sure that the deputy sheriff's name was spelled Geoffry. I really liked the quote that was at the end of the article, but the article is kinda an unhappy news story, so maybe you could not end the article with a funny quote. Very well written story though.

Matt Ferris