Students working out or practicing in Brooks Gym and the Mini-Dome are advised to be careful with their belongings left in the locker rooms since the recent reported locker break-ins.
“In the last few weeks . we’ve had someone breaking into the men’s lockers on the east side, first level dressing rooms,” said Mike Orr, administrative assistant and investigator for the department of public safety.
All of the break-ins have been concentrated in the men’s dressing rooms and so far, the women have escaped any theft. It is possible that one sole culprit is executing the burglaries from Brooks Gym and the Mini-Dome alike.
“It is a possibility, since the item stolen from both places was the same,” Orr said.
“As far as we can tell it’s only cash money being stolen.”
ETSU Athletic Director Todd Stansbury was alerted to the problem as well.
“We had some problems with wallets being stolen,” Stansbury said.
Students’ personal items are normally safe in the storage lockers, but now the students are urged to be more cautious.
Public Safety advises students to keep their belongings with them and not to leave cash in their lockers while they are in the gyms.
“From what I’ve heard, thefts have only been in the men’s locker rooms,” Stansbury said. “I don’t know if there have been other instances on the courts or anything like that.”
Public Safety is hard at work to catch the thief and to make the locker rooms safe.
For more information, call 439-6900, or log on to their Web site at www.etsu.edu/dps/ default.htm.

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