Santa Cruz, Calif. Mayor Has Laptop Stolen From Office

Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010

A burglar broke into Santa Cruz Mayor Mike Rotkin's office and took his city-issued laptop computer.
Police said the thief used a rock to break an office window and then took the computer.

Rotkin said he doesn't think anyone was specifically targeting him, and that there was nothing of importance kept on the computer.

"I think it was close to a window and somebody desperate saw it and decided to break the window and take the computer," Rotkin said. "I never used the computer. I had nothing on it."

The cost of the computer and the damage done to the office is about $1,500.

City Hall does have security cameras but there aren't any aimed on the mayor's office.