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Man arrested in computer theft

By SHELLY BIRKELO ( Contact ) Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 6:06 a.m.

JANESVILLE--Timothy W. Shetler, 22, of 1515 Holiday Drive, Janesville, was arrested on charges of burglary, theft, criminal damage and probation warrant, at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at his apartment after the burglar alarm sounded at Team Electronics, 1701 Holiday Drive, Janesville.

Janesville police officers found a window broken out at the store. A witness saw two people leaving the area. Officers obtained a search warrant and recovered a computer that was stolen in the burglary.

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janesvillecomments
Aug 21, 2008 at 1:02 a.m.
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I have a company laptop at home, and can borrow it for vacations. If I couldn't, then I might consider buying one of these EEE laptops: http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&...

Prices start at about $400 on Amazon.com and they are available in Windows or Linux. We have a couple of evaluation units at work and they can do the basic stuff (e-mail, surf the web, play games, run Open Office) and are very light weight (2.2 pounds with the battery) and compact (8.86" x 6.69" x 0.79" ~ 1.33").
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No CD/DVD and the drive is only 16GB, but it is solid-state (more rugged). You could slap a few movies on the hard drive in case you don't like what's on cable TV in the motel room.

twerp13
Aug 20, 2008 at 9:43 p.m.
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We were listening to the police scanner last night while this was all going on. It didn't take the police long to get the thief. It was interseting hearing how they were cordinating off the roads and had the K9 unit out and working. Glad everything went down ok and no one got hurt. as for trying to "RUN" away with a computer, I gotta tell you it sure wasn't too smart. I think if he would have been smarter he would have gone for something smaller and easier to carry on the run...LOL well I guess breaking & entering and stealing is'nt that smart anyways.

garyprimer
Aug 20, 2008 at 9:38 p.m.
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Kind of like stealing a Betamax.

SarahB
Aug 20, 2008 at 9:11 p.m.
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Janesvillecomments: How about a laptop?

janesvillecomments
Aug 20, 2008 at 9:10 p.m.
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I wouldn't lug a FREE Macintosh 2 blocks, much less go to the trouble of stealing one.

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