DA: IT guy stole 105 Dell laptops from John Hancock

A Weymouth man who worked in the IT department at John Hancock Financial Services was arraigned today on charges he used his access to a storage room to steal more than $100,000 worth of laptops over several months, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Donald Uggiano, 53, was released on personal recognizance at his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on two counts of larceny over $250 and a single count of larceny over $250 by a single scheme.

According to the DA's office:

On Jan. 20, 2015, it was discovered that six laptops were missing from the storeroom. The laptops had been placed there on Jan. 15, 2015, and company records indicate that Uggiano’s access badge was then used to gain access to the room on Jan. 16 and Jan. 19, when the office was closed in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Surveillance cameras on Jan. 16 captured Uggiano entering and exiting the room at various times - in one instance entering empty-handed and exiting with a laptop carrying case, in another entering and exiting with a carrying case, and in a third entering with a computer bag and exiting carrying the bag and two boxes identical to those used to ship the stolen laptops, prosecutors said. On Jan. 19, Uggiano was captured on camera entering the room wearing a backpack; the backpack appeared fuller in images captured as Uggiano exited the storeroom shortly thereafter, prosecutors alleged.

A subsequent review by the company revealed that 105 laptops - each purchased by the company since March 2014 at a cost of more than $1,000 each – were missing. None of the computers contained client or account information.

The DA's office did not say what Uggiano did with all those laptops.

Innocent, etc.