LIVERMORE FALLS – A break-in at the middle school Friday night or early Saturday resulted in the theft of four laptops, a trumpet and the computer digital video recorder from the security camera system.

The kitchen area was ransacked and teachers’ desks in classrooms were rifled with items scattered around the classrooms, police Chief Ernest Steward, Jr. said Monday.

The Apple laptops, three belonging to teachers and one to a student, are valued at $1,700 each, and the DVR was valued at $1,500, he said.

Police have two suspects in the case, Lt. Thomas Gould said.

Entry was gained by breaking a hinge on a bottom floor of the school, Steward said.

The break-in was discovered when a teacher went to the school Saturday morning to drop off a substitute plan and noticed two clarinet cases in the hallway of the top floor of the building, Steward said.

The teacher went into her room and saw an item lying on the floor, Steward said, and then went to her desk and noticed that all the drawers were open and had been gone through with items scattered around.

She then went down the hall on the top floor and saw that other teachers’ rooms had been entered and desks gone through and items thrown on the floor, Steward said.

“It was a mess,” Steward said, according to the police report.

The teacher contacted Livermore Falls Middle School Principal Ted Finn of Greene and then police were called in, he said.

In addition to the top floor desks, one teachers’ desk on the main floor was gone through, Finn said Monday. The rooms that were locked were not entered, he said.

“They were definitely looking for something,” Finn said.

Police from Livermore Falls and Jay arrived at the scene and spent several hours dusting for fingerprints and collecting DNA.

“I just want to thank Livermore Falls and Jay police … they have been wonderful,” Finn said.