Police: 3 computers of Clinton campaign workers stolen

Police are investigating the theft of three laptop computers from a car belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign workers in Philadelphia.

Police say four males had parked their car on a street near Interstate 95 and the Delaware River around 8 p.m. Friday and gone to a restaurant in the popular Northern Liberties neighborhood.

They returned at about 9:15 p.m. and found the rear passenger window broken and three backpacks gone, each containing a computer and other items.

Police say the computers may have contained campaign scheduling information. The Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security were notified.

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Police Commissioner Richard Ross told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the bags were in plain view and the car wasn’t marked as a Clinton campaign vehicle, so it was probably a “crime of opportunity.”

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