A laptop was stolen from an unsecured, unoccupied dorm room in Village C East on Monday, according to the Department of Public Safety’s Associate Director Joseph Smith. It is the first laptop stolen from a residence this semester.

The student left the residence at 6 p.m., and returned at 7:15 p.m. to find that a laptop had been taken from a backpack, according to a Public Safety Alert sent to the campus community on Wednesday afternoon.

“This is the first residential laptop loss of the semester,” Smith said in an email. “There was one burglary at the Med-Dent Building during break, but no residences.”

The forced burglary in the Med-Dent building was reported on Dec. 29, when a faculty member discovered several personal, non-electric items and an XM radio missing from his office.

While this is the first reported burglary of a university residence so far this semester, it follows a series of reports of laptops being stolen from unlocked residences during the fall semester.

No suspects or witnesses have been identified. DPS’s investigation is ongoing.