Published Friday, April 27, 2018 | 12:56 p.m.
Updated Friday, April 27, 2018 | 7:42 p.m.
Amanda Mirkovich
Robert Oseguera
In an attempt to conceal the “Property of the Clark County School District” etchings on the stolen Apple iPads, the suspects accused of pawning them — one a teacher — placed stickers over them, according to a Metro Police arrest report.
Three stolen tablets earlier this month were tracked down to Tate Elementary School, where Amanda Mirkovich, 42, is a special education teacher with a history of handling the devices, police said.
On Thursday, police arrested Mirkovich and her boyfriend, Robert Oseguera, 41, on various theft-related counts, jail logs show.
Investigators combing through a database of pawned items on April 3 later tracked the iPads to a North Las Vegas shop, police said.
Two of the tablets were pawned by Mirkovich and another by Oseguera, police said. Mirkovich told detectives that the iPads were owned by her boyfriend, who’d bought them online.
When confronted by police, Mirkovich said that “she had no idea how that could be. She would never take anything from the school,” according to the report.
Oseguera admitted that the iPads were taken from the east valley elementary school and that when Mirkovich brought the tablets home he would wipe the data off them and put stickers over the School District etchings, but that Mirkovich didn’t know about it.
Mirkovich and Oseguera were booked at the Clark County Detention Center on felony counts of burglary, possession of a stolen property and a misdemeanor count of obtaining money under false pretenses, jail logs show. The woman faces an additional count of grand larceny.
Mirkovich, whose employment status will be listed as assigned to home once she’s released from jail, was hired by the district in 2013 and has been teaching at Tate for three years, police said.
As of this evening, the suspects remained at the Clark County Detention Center, Mirkovich on a $21,000 bond and Oseguera on one of $12,000.
