Two Copley Hall rooms were reportedly burglarized within a one-hour span while their residents were out Thursday night.

Computers and jewelry was stolen from one first-floor room, while two students living on the second floor reported that various electronic equipment had gone missing.

Elizabeth Niles (COL ’09) said that she was out of her first floor Copley room from 9-10 p.m. while her roommate, Christina Capatides (COL ’09), was in the room next door. Niles said that when she returned, she noticed that the lights, which she had left on when she left the room, were off and both roommates’ computers, jewelry and Capatides’ digital camera were missing. The Department of Public Safety and the etropolitan Police Department responded to the scene.

Later in the night, Capatides found Niles’ jewelry box and its contents strewn about on Capatides’ bed under the sheets along with their suitemate’s hammer, which was normally stored in the adjoining bathroom. They suspect that the hammer was used to open Niles’ jewelry box, which had been locked. When they realized that more jewelry had been stolen than originally reported, they called MPD again.

Niles said she does not expect to recover her stolen property.

“We’re not very optimistic that they’re going to find anything,” she said.

Within the same hour on the second floor, Max Librach (COL ’09) and Frank Kanekoa (MSB ’09), left their room unlocked while they went into town for less than thirty minutes. They returned, they said, to find several valuable possessions missing, including two cameras, an iPod, a personal digital assistant, Kanekoa’s laptop and a diamond ring that Librach said was a family heirloom. Librach’s laptop, which was locked to his desk, was the only expensive item that remained.

“When we first went into the room, we saw that the cable [that locked Librach’s laptop to the desk] was all pulled out and awkward,” Kanekoa said.

Their suitemate, Matt Holt (COL ’09), was in the neighboring room when the equipment was stolen, but he did not think twice about certain noises that he heard.

“We definitely heard someone in there, and I’m pretty sure he tried to come into my room too, but he must have heard me in there,” Holt said.

The suitemates did not immediately report the incident.

“We grabbed weapons [a bat and a wrench] and ran around trying to find anyone that looked like they didn’t belong,” Librach said.

After unsuccessfully searching for the culprit, Librach reported the incident to a DPS officer at Healy Gates a half hour later.

DPS Director Darryl Harrison was not in his office yesterday and could not be reached for comment.