Two suspects involved in unrelated on-campus larcenies of computers and a handbag were arrested this week by the Department of Public Safety and New York Police Department.

Nelson Almeyda, 41, was arrested Tuesday for stealing at least five unattended laptop computers from Butler and Avery libraries on Friday and Monday. Separately, police arrested a woman Thursday, on charges of larceny, for stealing an unattended handbag from Café 212 Monday night.

Public Safety identified Almeyda as a suspect after reviewing video footage from the incidents, and dispatched plainclothes officers around campus in efforts to apprehend him. After a laptop was stolen Tuesday at the Jewish Theological Seminary by a suspect of Almeyda’s description, a plainclothes Public Safety officer identified him entering Avery Library. Almeyda was detained in the Public Safety office before New York Police Department officers arrested him.

Almeyda—who is not a University affiliate, but had obtained a temporary reading card—had a laptop in his possession when arrested, which police determined had been stolen Tuesday morning from New York University, Associate Vice President for Public Safety James McShane said. The computer stolen from JTS was “later found stashed somewhere,” McShane said.

“He walked into Avery Library, into a public place, and we engaged him in conversation. Across the conversation we asked him to come to our offices, which they do, and then we call the police,” McShane said.

Almeyda has been charged on a felony count of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespassing in the third degree and possession of burglar tools, according to New York State court information.

The woman apprehended for the larceny in Lerner Hall was also identified from video surveillance, McShane said. “We put out an alert with some video of her as well as with a picture of her in the act and today a University affiliate apparently saw her on the street based on our poster and contacted the security officers,” he said.

Plainclothes Public Safety officers followed the woman—whose name has not yet been identified—until NYPD officers from the 26th Precinct arrested her at 113th and Broadway.

“Simply said, we achieved our mission,” McShane said.