Wednesday, 3 November 2010

OSU Law Library thief

The Columbus Dispatch reports that a 2L at OSU's law school has been stealing law books from the Moritz Law Library and selling them on Amazon. The suspect has sold about 232 law books for over $10,000 and still has over 1300 books for sale. An OSU Police Detective in charge of the case said the suspect has been taking books from the law library for about a year. A Brazilian attorney was the first to realize something was wrong when she purchased a law book from Orion Bookstore, an Amazon seller, in July. When she received the book, she noticed crossed-out OSU Moritz Law Library stamps inside the front cover. She e-mailed the associate dean for Information Services at the OSU Moritz College of Law, who confirmed that the law library had the book in its collection and that it should be available. When he checked to see if the book was on the shelf, he discovered it was missing, and the OSU police launched an investigation.   Police noticed that many of the books listed for sale by the online seller were available in the law library and were still on the shelves. They also found out  that the return address for purchased books was in Columbus.

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