A burglar or burglars broke into the Lincoln County Publishing Company the night of Aug. 26-27, stealing equipment and returnable cans from the Newcastle building.
The building headquarters The Lincoln County News and rents space to Standpipe Redemption.
The burglar or burglars stole two new Dell Latitude laptops and a Nikon D-1H camera with a spare lens from the newspaper and 50 large bags of bottles from the redemption center.
The Lincoln County News estimates the value of the camera and lenses at $5000 and the value of the laptops at $1800.
Standpipe Redemption places the retail value of the bags, which contain 324 cans apiece, at $27.54 each, for a total value of $1377. Standpipe pays $16.20 to fill each bag, so the total loss to the center is $2187.
The bags contain aluminum cans. Thirty-five bags contain beer cans; 15 Coke and Pepsi cans.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Bridgham is the investigating officer.
