Penn State University Police arrested a man yesterday who allegedly stole $8,000 worth of property from Penn State to obtain heroin.

Clinton M. Teeter, 26, of Port Matilda, was arrested on 23 counts of burglary, 23 counts of theft by unlawful taking, 23 counts of receiving stolen property and 22 counts of possessing instruments of a crime, according to a university police press release.

Tom Sowerby, Penn State University criminal investigations supervisor, said Teeter stole property from Rec Hall, the Nittany Landscape Building, the Physical Plant Building and Noll Lab between Nov. 24, 2004 and November 2005.

He was released in lieu of $175,000 unsecured bail with a preliminary hearing set for Wednesday.

Teeter is accused of accessing various buildings using a key he obtained while he was a Penn State employee in the wage-payroll department, according to court documents. He is no longer a Penn State employee.

During the weekends, Teeter would allegedly use the key to enter various offices across the University Park campus, Sowerby said.

"He stole things that were convenient and he could get away with," he said.

He allegedly stole property from Rec Hall on 13 different occasions, according to court documents.

He is accused of stealing the following from Rec Hall: a $1,500 Dell laptop, a $1,500 Sony PlayStation 2, a $600 Samsung 19-inch flat-screen monitor, two Apple iPods valued at $245 each, a $500 Sony DVD recorder, a $500 Hewlett Packard PDA, a $200 Nike watch, a $100 Sony personal CD player, golf equipment valued at about $1,000, a fishing rod and two reels valued at about $600, a $300 Motorola cell phone and a total of $1,783 in cash.

He is accused of stealing $40 in cash from 16 Noll Lab, $202 in cash from the Nittany Landscape Shop and $250 in cash from the Key Shop of the Physical Plant Building.

Teeter is also accused of attempting to break into the Rec Hall Ticket Office on Oct. 10, 2005.

He is also being charged with criminal trespassing for entering 18 Kinesiology Department as well as stealing bolt cutters and two Penn State keys from 105 Agricultural Engineering.