A moving-company employee entrusted with an access-card key to Rockefeller University ripped off the Upper East Side school by swiping $25,000 in computer switches, authorities said yesterday.
School officials gave Michael Loos, 50, of Staten Island, access to parts of the campus at 1230 York Ave., law-enforcement sources said.
But Loos allegedly used the pass key to sneak into the computer room at about 4 p.m. on Dec. 16 and help himself to the trove of switches.
What he didn’t realize was that video surveillance was following his every move — which gave detectives from the 19th Precinct all the reason they needed to pick him up Thursday on an arrest warrant.
He was charged with burglary and grand larceny and was being held last night at The Tombs in lower Manhattan in lieu of $2,000 bail, sources said.