Nearly 150 laptop computers were stolen from a nonprofit agency that gives computers to students in poor areas, police and an official with Computers for Youth said Friday.

The New York-based organization expanded to metro Atlanta last May with an office in Lithonia. It was supposed to deliver laptops to 120 families at a west Atlanta charter school Saturda.

But Jeanne Artime, program manager for Computers for Youth-Atlanta, said she arrived at her office and warehouse Friday morning and found they had been ransacked.

"We're incredibly disappointed," Artime said.

DeKalb County Police Officer and spokesman Marcus Hodge said "officers are following strong leads in the case."

Computers for Youth has given away more than 500 computers to middle-schoolers in its first year in Atlanta.

The used laptops, which had been donated by business software company SAP, were being refurbished and prepared for delivery. A workshop was planned for Saturday at KIPP West Atlanta Young Scholars Academy, where the laptops and software were to be given away, Artime said.

The nonprofit plans to replace the stolen computers and give them to the students later. The organization has partnered with three other schools and also plans to give computers to sixth-graders at Jean Childs Young Middle School in Atlanta.

The organization works with schools where 75 percent or more of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches, Artime said.

People wishing to make a donation of money or computers can call Computers for Youth at 770-987-8212 or can visit www.cfy.org.