Three Georgia Tech students have been released from the Gwinnett County Jail on bond after being arrested for allegedly breaking into Norcross Elementary School.
Norcross police Capt. Brian Harr told the AJC that officers responding to an alarm at 2:24 a.m. Sunday found an open door, and when they were checking the school, they heard voices and found David Giles, Alan Chang and Donovan Henneberg-Verity inside the building.
Harr said that when officers tried to stop the three, “they took off running, ran outside, and they caught them a short distance later.”
He said there was no damage done to the school, and nothing was taken.
“I don’t think they had been in there long enough to do anything,” Harr said.
Chang and Henneberg-Verity, both 21, and Giles, 22, were charged with criminal trespass, loitering or prowling, obstruction of an officer, criminal attempt to commit a crime, conspiracy to commit a crime and burglary.
All three are listed as undergraduate students on the Georgia Tech website.
Harr said the three “couldn’t really give a good reason” for being inside the school at 2:30 a.m.
“I think they said they were going to play on the playground equipment, but I don’t see how they moved that inside,” Harr said. “They shouldn’t have been there.”
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