Teenagers stole over $40,000 worth of calculators during NYC high school robbery: cops

A group of teenagers escaped with a stash of more than $40,000 of calculators in nine robberies from Bronx high schools within a month, police said.

Authorities said teenagers, believed to be between one and five boys aged between 15 and 18, snuck into schools in the Melrose, Charlotte Gardens and Morrisania areas overnight to pack expensive math devices.

In the first known incident, two teenagers stole calculators worth about $6,900 from the second and third floors of the New York City Charter School of Architecture, Engineering, and Building on Brook Avenue by entering through the fire escape around 2:20 February. 6, the police said. Then they ran away.

Their next robbery took place about two weeks later, on February 19, at the Bronx Regional High School on Stebbins Avenue near Jennings Street. The four suspects stole calculators worth about $1,465 before fleeing through another exit, authorities said.

Then around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 24, a lone suspect broke into the window of the women’s locker room at Morris High School on Boston Road near East 166th Street and grabbed unknown items before fleeing, police said. The cost of the items was also unknown.

The next day at around 1:45 a.m., the two teenagers returned to the same school, this time breaking a second-story window, police said.

Footage released by the NYPD over the weekend shows them using a chair to break the window of a door before opening the door and entering the room. The policemen said that they broke several windows in the same way, but this time they left empty-handed.

Then, around 1:20 am on March 1, the couple smashed a window panel at Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School on St. Anne’s Avenue near Rae Street with a brick, police said.

They also broke into two locked rooms and seized a large supply of calculators worth about $13,920 before fleeing, police said.

They returned to the same school around 10:30 pm that day, used the brick again to smash a window panel, and broke into several rooms, where they pocketed an even larger stash: $14,200 worth of calculators, authorities said.

Three young robbers attacked the South Bronx Charter High School on Washington Avenue near East 166th Street around midnight on March 5 by climbing through a locked security gate and then breaking the lock on a side door, police said.

The trio fled empty-handed but caused about $300 worth of damage to the castle, police said.

In another unsuccessful raid later that morning, the trio returned to Morris High School around 4:30 am on March 5, police said.

According to the police, this time they smashed the dining room window with a brick.

They were soon joined by two more suspects who, according to authorities, smashed several classroom and office windows throughout the building with a hammer.

They fled empty-handed but caused about $15,000 worth of damage, police said.

Two days later, around 3 a.m., two scammers allegedly smashed a classroom window on the third floor of Legacy College Preparatory High School on Caldwell Avenue near East 158th Street.

They escaped with calculators worth about $6,000, police said.

No arrests were made in connection with a string of costly thefts.