An interim administrator at Bucks County Community College has been arrested after police said he broke into a high school over the weekend.
Albert F. McLaughlin, 47, of Doylestown, was charged late Tuesday night with burglary, defiant trespassing, theft, and receiving stolen property. He was preliminarily arraigned before on-call District Judge Corryn Kronnagel.
The 47-year-old man was arrested hours after the Central Bucks Regional Police Department shared surveillance images of a man they alleged broke into Central Bucks West High School early Sunday morning.
The Bucks County Courier Times reported that McLaughlin was hired as an interim vice president of enrollment management at the community college earlier this summer.
A college spokesperson told the newspaper that McLaughlin was on leave.
According to police and court documents, the images from the high school’s security system were clear and led to investigators to identifying McLaughlin as the suspect.
Video footage shows McLaughlin inside the school from approximately 2 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and he he is seen collecting items and placing them into a cart, police said.
The items were then stashed in an unlocked office in the high school, police said.
Police stated that McLaughlin entered the building wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, but left wearing a different T-shirt with the words “Run This Town” on the back. The T-shirt, shorts, and a coffee mug he was holding when he left all came from the school, police said.
An inventory following the incident found five shirts were missing, and school security staff told investigators that McLaughlin also entered the infirmary, rearranged supplies, and took a shower, police said.
Video shows McLaughlin leaving the school with a backpack he did not have when he entered, police said.
According to his Linkedin page, McLaughlin is tasked by Bucks County Community College with expanding and diversifying enrollment pipelines for the community college, work on dual-enrollment strategy, create analytic dashboard, and drive enrollment. He previously worked as a performance coach for a plumbing and HVAC business, an operations director for a education company, and as a campus president for DeVry University and FORTIS College and Institutes.
McLaughlin’s Linkedin page touts him as a “transformative leader” with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in criminal justice and corrections and an MBA from DeVry University.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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