Three teenagers were arrested for allegedly stealing $6,000 in laptop computers from Da Vinci charter school. According to Hawthorne police, officers responded to a burglary alarm at the school and spotted three young men running from campus. Police surrounded the area and conducted a search with dogs and helicopters. The search lasted about four hours. The police found the teens in a nearby house and the seven laptop computers were found nearby. The young men were booked on suspicion of burglary.

CA Penal Code 460 states:
(a) Every burglary of an inhabited dwelling house, vessel, as
defined in the Harbors and Navigation Code, which is inhabited and
designed for habitation, floating home, as defined in subdivision (d)
of Section 18075.55 of the Health and Safety Code, or trailer coach,
as defined by the Vehicle Code, or the inhabited portion of any
other building, is burglary of the first degree.
   (b) All other kinds of burglary are of the second degree.
   (c) This section shall not be construed to supersede or affect
Section 464 of the Penal Code.

461. Burglary is punishable as follows:
    (a) Burglary in the first degree: by imprisonment in the state
prison for two, four, or six years.
    (b) Burglary in the second degree: by imprisonment in the county
jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison.

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Three Teenagers Arrested for Burglary