According to campaign spokesman Christopher Hartman, gone are computers and monitors, a TV, some palm pilots and other things they expect to find missing in the coming hours. It’s the second burglary of the office in a week.

“(They got) plenty of sensitive campaign information,” Hartman says. “This time, they got the information they were looking for.”

After a break-in Tuesday, the campaign staff discovered a server and some other small items missing.

They’re not sure when the break-in was, except that it was overnight and a crowbar was used to break through the front door. There was no power in the office due to yesterday’s wind storm.

More details forthcoming. (SG)

UPDATE:

Hartman says both the LMPD and FBI have been contacted by Yarmuth’s campaign manager, Dan Geldon, to investigate the two burglaries.

“We’re upset, this is very serious,” he says. Hartman had told LEO Weekly last week that after the first break-in the staff’s morale was down but they were going to move forward. Today they’re all in a bit of shock, he says, and after having a second break-in within a week’s time with valuable campaign information taken he believes there may be a financial setback.

Unlike before, the intruders went upstairs where Hartman, Geldon and other important offices were located. Cracked open, leaving splintered wood around the door’s lock, the Finance Office was ransacked.

“Our finance office was broken into but uniquely they took none of the cash,” he says. Hartman estimates the total loss exceeds the $2,000 from the previous break-in, but the value of the materials outweighs their price tag.

More details forthcoming. (PB)