Curtis Bay Elementary break-in latest among Baltimore schools targeted overnight

School police arrested one of six people who were captured on camera pillaging Curtis Bay Elementary School at night.

Officers were sent to the school to stop the perpetrators around 2:45 a.m. on July 2026. Court records describe how they searched the building and found Raymond Causion, 20, hiding on the roof.

The records state that a dispatcher for the school police had reviewed surveillance cameras at the school and noticed six people dressed “in all black entering the cafeteria and on the roof of the school.”

Officers first went to the cafeteria, but did not find any of the suspects in the area. Then, they went across the hall to the custodian’s office and noticed that there was a ladder to the roof access door, which had a damaged roof lock hatch, according to Causion’s charging documents.

Once on the roof, officers climbed up a second ladder to reach an upper level of the roof. That’s where they found Causion,

The charging documents allege that Causion had a backpack that contained burglary tools and food from the cafeteria. Its contents consisted of four screwdrivers, four bread cakes, multiple frozen pizzas, Dubble Bubble gum, two 12-ounce bottles of Pepsi, and a 20-ounce bottle of red Gatorade.

Causion told officers that he took food from the school cafeteria because he was homeless, according to the documents.

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Police have charged Causion with fourth-degree burglary of a storehouse, stealing food from the Board of Education valued at under $100, possessing burglar’s tools, and breaking and entering a storehouse belonging to the Board of Education.

Multiple Baltimore City schools have been targeted, entered, and sometimes damaged by people at night.

For example, earlier this month school police were sent to the Baltimore Design School in the 1500 block of Barclay Street to investigate a report of an overnight break-in.

Facilities staff could be seen securing doors behind the school.

A school facilities repairman tries to fix one of two doors that were tampered with at the Baltimore Design School on July 2. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)

Last year, school police were sent to Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School after learning that someone broke windows along the backside of the building.

Officers who were working on the night of Nov. 7, 2025, found several windows with extensive damage.

School police discovered that someone broke several large windows in the rear of Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School in Nov. 7, 2025. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)

Prior to that, there was a break-in at Mary E. Rodman Elementary School on April 25, 2025. The incident happened on a Friday night.

A forensics investigator could be seen entering the school while facilities staff secured a broken window.

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A few days later, the Baltimore Police Department announced that 16 juveniles had been arrested over the weekend for a variety of crimes ranging from robbery to burglary.

Police confirmed to Fox45 that two of those juveniles were captured by authorities following a break-in at the Mary E. Rodman Elementary School.

People interested in conducting criminal activity on school property don’t appear to be deterred by bad weather.

In January, as snow blanketed the city, Yorkwood Elementary School was the target of an unusual theft that left the school without heat or water.

Community members speculated that someone had stolen copper from the building.

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Fox45 asked Baltimore City Public Schools about the tempo of overnight break-ins at its facilities. BCPS spokeswoman Sherry Christian said those statistics were not immediately available.