Education : FBI Books Doctorate Student
A student working for his doctorate in history was free on bond today on charges he stole nearly 600 books worth more than $500,000 from universities in Texas, Florida and Louisiana.
Charlton J. Matovsky, a history student at Texas A&M; University, was arrested Tuesday by FBI agents in College Station, Tex., and charged with interstate transportation of stolen property.
Federal agents seized 60 books from Matovsky’s College Station residence and more than 500 books from his home in Natchitoches, La., FBI Special Agent Andrew Duffin said. According to the charges, the books were stolen from libraries at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and Texas A&M; while Matovsky, 25, was a student at those colleges.
Four hundred of the books were stolen from the Napoleon-French Revolution Collection at FSU. Many of the books in the collection are no longer in print and cannot be replaced, Duffin said.
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