Two teenage boys and a 42-year-old man have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft and at­tempt to sell lap­tops be­long­ing to a sec­ondary school.

Po­lice said the prin­ci­pal of the Mal­abar Sec­ondary School was in­formed that four lap­tops were list­ed for sale on Face­book Mar­ket­place on Oc­to­ber 1.

One of the se­r­i­al num­bers for one of the four Leno­vo V14 G4 lap­tops be­long­ing to the school matched the se­r­i­al num­ber of one of the lap­tops up for sale.

Af­ter mak­ing checks at the school, the prin­ci­pal re­alised four lap­tops were miss­ing and made a po­lice re­port a day lat­er.

Po­lice said the prin­ci­pal re­port­ed that no one was giv­en per­mis­sion to re­move the lap­tops, and there were no signs of forced en­try at the school.

Of­fi­cers mount­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion and re­cov­ered two of the lap­tops. Two teenagers and an adult male were held. Po­lice did not re­veal if the stu­dents at­tend­ed the Mal­abar Sec­ondary School.

One of the teens lives at Las Lo­mas, an­oth­er at San­gre Chiq­ui­to, while the man is from En­ter­prise.

Mal­abar is one of the schools where po­lice of­fi­cers are as­signed to ad­dress school vi­o­lence.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, po­lice are look­ing in­to the van­dal­ism of sev­er­al ve­hi­cles be­long­ing to teach­ers at the Mu­cu­rapo East Sec­ondary School. The in­ci­dent is said to have oc­curred yes­ter­day.

The teach­ers’ ve­hi­cles ap­peared to­have been keyed and scraped.

Po­lice said while they were made aware of the in­ci­dent cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia, there has been no of­fi­cial re­port from of­fi­cials at the school. Mu­cu­rapo East is not one of the 80 schools with a po­lice pres­ence.