The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office filed a felony grand theft charge against a woman accused of stealing a computer from the Old Town Newhall Library, according to a spokeswoman for the office Thursday.
L.A. County Superior Court records online were not yet updated Friday to indicate the next court date for Amy Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old Newhall resident.
Santa Clarita Vallery Sheriff’s Station deputies said she entered the library on the 24500 block of Main Street on July 24 and “took one of the library’s public computers from the first-floor children’s area,” according to an email from Shirley Milley, spokeswoman for the station.
Station detectives from the Burglary and Robbery Unit investigated the theft report and then identified Fitzgerald as their suspect, Miller wrote on Aug. 22.
She added that deputies from the station’s Crime Prevention Unit arrested her at 11 a.m. the previous day, following the service of a search warrant for her Newhall residence.
The computer was recovered inside Fitzgerald’s home and returned to the library, according to Miller.
