3/18/04 Crime Notes

Palo Alto, CA-- A cellphone was stolen from a student's backpack at a local Palo Alto School. Student Michael Shih returned from lunch to find his Nokia cellphone missing from his bag; the theft was immediately reported. An extensive search enlisted the help of school staff but turned up no results. Later in the day, the owner of the phone called his own cellphone repeatedly in an attempt to pin down the identity of the thief, but calls were answered by an irritated woman who angrily asked the young man to stop calling her. The young man's sister has put in for a gang hit on this woman, and is asking that anyone with information on her identity, to report it through the underground.