Second break-in at Apple computer store in Lakeville

LAKEVILLE — Visionary Computer was broken into on Friday morning, May 24, the day before the start of the Memorial Day weekend.

The shop on a cul de sac in the center of Lakeville had already been burglarized in 2018, just after the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Shop owner David Maffucci said that he had learned a lot from the first break-in, after consulting with security professionals including the State Police, and with other Apple store owners across the country who had also been robbed. 

This time around, Maffucci said, the burglars had trouble breaking into storage spaces and left with only two Apple iMac computers, which Maffucci estimated would have a street value less than a thousand dollars. 

“There is no way they are coming back again, exposing themselves to all that risk for a measly $1K,” Maffucci said in an email message sent to the store’s staff.  “The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze this time around.”

Although video cameras are in place around the interior and exterior of the store, they were not able to catch the license plate of the vehicle that the robbers used. Tire tracks on the ground indicate that they parked on the nearby lawn of the Salisbury Bank and Trust Company’s trust office; they walked around the back of the Visionary Computer building, avoiding the cameras (and indicating that they had carefully checked out the building before coming to rob it on Friday).

Maffucci said that he received an alert on his iPhone that someone had triggered the alarm in the store at about 3 a.m. on Friday. He called the State Police and said he was impressed at how quickly they got there. The alarm at the store was very loud and triggered flashing blue lights that Maffucci had installed. These alerted the robbers to get out of the store; they were gone before the police arrived.