Schools
UPDATE: Police Identify Suspect in School Bus Radio Thefts
Foxborough and Sharon police say the person responsible for a series of bus radio thefts is a 26-year-old Sharon man.
UPDATE (5:33 p.m., May 23, 2013) -
Police have identified the man they believe is responsible for several bus radio thefts in Foxborough and Sharon after another break-in occurred this week.
Foxborough police detective Timothy O'Leary, working with Sharon police, conducted an investigation following a string of bus radios thefts in both towns and was able to identify the suspect as a 26-year-old Sharon man, according to Foxborough police via its Facebook page.
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Police said there have been three break-ins at the Foxborough bus yard on Elm Street and multiple radios - valued at $250 each - have been stolen. As a result of the recent investigation, police say they have recovered some of the stolen equipment.
The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending, police said.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
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ORIGINAL STORY -
A rash of radio system thefts from area school buses has alerted Foxborough police and school administration after two recent break-ins at the town bus yard.
“We have had a series of break-ins … [people] stealing the radio systems out of the buses,” Foxborough Schools Business Administrator Bill Yukna said at Monday’s School Committee meeting.
Yukna told committee members there have been two break-ins in Foxborough and four radio systems have been taken from the town’s buses. The most recent break-in occurred this past Friday.
“I think they got scared away both times because they only took a couple [radios] each time,” Yukna said.
The problem has been much bigger in Sharon, according to Yukna and with the Michael J. Connolly and Sons, Inc. bus company out of Walpole.
“Sharon was hit hard, Connolly bus line was hit hard,” Yukna said. “I think Connolly said they lost close to 80 radios.”
Yukna said the radio thefts at the Foxborough bus yard and throughout the area have heightened security in town.
“The police are more vigilant and we are taking other security measures,” said Yukna.
Yukna said the bus radios cost about $250 each.
If you have any information regarding the radio thefts, contact Foxborough police at (508) 543-4343.
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