Brooklyn cops made a surprising discovery in a stolen truck this week — dozens of computers marked “Property of the NYPD,” law-enforcement sources said.
The new Dell computers were on their way to being delivered to the Police Department when the truck was stolen, sources said.
An NYPD traffic agent was on Classon and Myrtle avenues ready to issue a ticket to the parked Penske truck around 11 p.m. Tuesday when the vehicle’s registration came up as being reported stolen, sources said Thursday.
The agent alerted police, who had the truck towed for processing, cops said.
Investigators later discovered the 48 computers inside, sources said.
The computers came from Interface Computer Communications, ICC, an electronics company on Murray Hill Parkway and Madison Circle Drive in East Rutherford, NJ, sources said.
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division and Counter Terrorism Bureau were notified after the find.
It wasn’t immediately clear if there might have already been sensitive information or department-specific programs on the computers.