Police detained a 19-year-old man and 14-year-old girl after they sneaked into a Bixby Knolls school to steal classroom supplies Sunday evening, according to authorities.

The teenagers got in through an open window at Hughes Middle School and took a projector and several calculators before a school safety officer stopped them around 7:25 p.m., LBPD spokeswoman Shaunna Dandoy said.

The safety officer called in police, who arrested the 19-year-old, Dandoy said. Authorities identified him as Tyler Strauss, a Compton resident, who was booked into jail on suspicion of commercial burglary and held on $20,000 bail.

The girl was booked on suspicion of burglary and resisting an officer before being released to her family, Dandoy said.

Police said they recovered the stolen items.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.