Burglars stole cash from two safes in first-floor offices of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s athletic complex during the weekend, UH campus security and police said Monday.
UH public information officers declined to identify the exact location of the safes, or how much was taken. UH-Manoa campus security chief Wayne Ogino said he did not know how much was taken.
UH athletics department employees discovered the break-ins when they arrived for work Monday morning, Ogino said. Police were called to investigate.
There was a rash of burglaries on the Manoa campus from last March to July, a number of which occurred on the Lower Campus.
The incidents included the stealing of cash from the offices of several coaches on the third floor of the athletics complex during one weekend last summer, Ogino said.
THE LES MURAKAMI Stadium office of Sodexo, the UH athletics department’s food vendor, was broken into and $10,000 was taken last summer, Ogino said.
Would-be burglars also attempted to break into Sodexo’s locked office at the Stan Sheriff Center, as well as the ticket office and an ATM on the site, but failed to take anything, he said.
Also broken into last summer was a wooden portable building on East-West Center Road that houses a campus office for Ampco Parking System, an area burglarized twice.
Ogino said no one has been caught for any of last year’s burglaries. Sodexo and Ampco beefed up security by adding motion detectors or security cameras.
“It seems like it may be starting up again, that’s why the concern,” Ogino said.