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Former U of Hawaii Student Steals 200 Rare Books

| July 1, 2011

An unnamed dropout from the University of Hawaii has been arrested on charges of stealing nearly 200 rare books from the Hamilton Library on the school’s Manoa campus. Police seized 30 boxes of books that had been packaged to be shipped away. Authorities were alerted when a rare book dealer in California contacted the University [...]