BELLEFONTE -- University Police Services has recovered thousands of dollars worth of missing College of Agriculture equipment and vouchers at the homes of two University employees and their daughter.

Court documents state that 42 University-owned items were found at the residence of Owen Keene, associate professor of poultry science, and Charlotte Keene, facility and service coordinator in the College of Agriculture and at the apartment of Brenda Keene.

Investigating Officer Ron Schreffler said the alleged thefts from the Department of Plant Pathology have been under investigation for about four months. Charges will be filed at the completion of the investigation, he said.

Search warrants issued in December listed items such as a Mactinosh SE computer, an Apple Laserwriter, five Apple hardware manuals, a lamp, a computer mouse pad, an AT&T answering machine, a General Electric Dual Wave II and Kodak film as recovered from Brenda Keene's 340 E. Beaver Ave. apartment.

At Owen and Charlotte Keene's residence, 529 Outer Drive, police recovered a Sharp calculator, voucher requisitions for travel and cash advances, an Oxford file folder, a copy of an economics exam, 13 University and file cabinet keys, an Eureka vacuum cleaner and various Apple computer equipment items.

The items were allegedly taken from the department during the last five years, the affidavits state.

According to court documents, Charlotte Keene's secretary, Laurel Hauer, alleged that she heard Charlotte Keene reserve University vehicles in her name, but never used them. Hauer alleged that Owen Keene used the cars.

The secretary also allegedly observed Owen Keene bring gasoline receipts and charge slips to the plant pathology office, 210 A Buckhout, and later saw his wife allegedly charge them to the department under department head Herbert Cole's name, according to the documents.

Hauer also said Brenda Keene allegedly used plant pathology purchase orders to buy items from the Penn State Bookstore on campus from December 1988 to August 1989, documents state.

In December, an order charged to plant pathology was placed for a cap and gown with a notation which said, "to be used by Faculty of Plant Pathology." In the court affidavit, Cole stated the order was a "falsification." It continued that Brenda Keene was to graduate this spring.

People answering the phones in both departments said the Keenes are no longer employed at the University, but refused to elaborate further.

Owen and Charlotte Keene could not be reached for comment.