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Thieves in Texas steal $15K in electronics from homeless center

Nearly $15,000 of electronic equipment was stolen from a Texas center for homeless people. Photo: markusspiske/Pixabay

FORT WORTH, Texas — Thieves in Texas took nearly $15,000 worth of electronics from a homeless center Saturday night, WFAA reported.

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Gary Wilkerson Jr. who runs the nonprofit When We Love in Fort Worth, said surveillance cameras showed two men and a woman taking computers, television sets and other electronics over a three-hour period.

"They were very methodical," Wilkerson told WFAA.

Writing on Facebook, Wilkerson said he believed one of the thieves was a homeless man he allowed to stay at the facility because of the cold weather in north Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported.

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“This makes the pain of what happened even greater as I really believed in this man,” Wilkinson wrote. “Please keep us in your prayers.”

Wilkerson estimated at least eight laptops were stolen, along with computer monitors, a 50-inch plasma television set and a sound system worth at least $2,500, WFAA reported.

Anyone with information on the burglary is encouraged to contact Fort Worth police at 817-392-4222 and reference report No. 18-100679.