[UPDATE BELOW] After thieves stole computers, electronics and an aquarium (with fish) from Brooklyn preschools one young charge demanded retribution. "I want the cops to get the bad guys and beat them up and just get them and put them in jail," five-year-old Christine Stephen told NY1. Two other similar institutions in the area, David Foster Preschool Academy and Little Stars Daycare, were also targeted.
In addition to items of obvious value, the burglars left with other stuff including books, phones and a microwave. The theft of a glass aquarium was particularly perplexing. “We're talking about a fish tank, a 10-gallon, with fish with plants and a light and it's gone," puzzled a head teacher at the Montessori School.
Police are searching for the perps, who the school’s director believes escaped through the roof. They have another similar case on their hands, in which a gang of thieves took computers, video game consoles, a pet hamster and a sock puppet from a Staten Island school for autistic kids.
[UPDATE] Cops have collared the alleged fish tank thief, identified as Michael Burnett, 44. He's confessed to seven robberies, including the three preschools, between March 19 and April 1, but claims to have already hawked all the stolen goods. No word on the fate of the poor fish.
