The police have arrested one of the fiends involved in the dastardly thefts of computers, video game consoles, a sock monkey and a pet hamster named Star from a Staten Island school for autistic children has bee arrested. The Advance reports, "Emil Sorensen, 21, of Elm Park, is accused of being the lookout in the crime, which was carried out on a weekend... Police say he admitted his role and copped to selling some of the stolen goods — a Nintendo Wii, a laptop and jewelry." Unfortunately, "Star’s fate is unclear."
The burglary rocked Eden II School For Children With Autism last month: School director Joanne Gerenser said, "It just felt personal. That hamster was of no monetary value to anybody but the kids ... I felt that it was really malicious," that the students were traumatized, "One of the students told us that she didn't sleep the night before because she was afraid," while another said, "I miss the sock puppet."
Sorenson, whose Myspace page "lists as his interests 'videogames,' 'weed' and 'making money,'" was found via a police tip and now the cops are zeroing in on his cohorts. The Advance adds, "After the theft made headlines, Best Buy donated several Wii consoles, games and a camcorder to the school, spurred on by a group of concerned citizens who formed the group Staten Island for Eden II. The school also received several pet hamsters as gifts, and $100 from a freshman at Manhattan’s Xavier High School who’d been saving the money for video games of his own." Awww.
