Crime & Safety
Police: UNI Student Stole Thousands of Dollars of Laptops at Campus Library
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A University of Northern Iowa student is in custody after police said they found stolen electronics in his room.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported UNI police found four stolen laptops, worth a total of $3,181, in George R. Cole-Duvall's room in Bender Hall, a UNI dorm. Cole-Duvall, 20, was charged with second-degree theft on Monday.
Police said the four computers were reported stolen at Rod Library in April.
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Another student, Chad Michael Malloy, 21, of Waterloo, was also arrested, the Courier reported. Police said Malloy sold one of the stolen computers for Cole-Duvall, to First Class Cell Phone Repair on May 1. Malloy was charged with second-degree theft.
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