About $35,000 worth of stolen electronics were recovered by police after a recent series of robberies on West Campus, public safety officials told residents Wednesday.

Five uniformed deputies from the Stanford Department of Public Safety came to a meeting of Sterling Quad residents last night to discuss the recent spate of robberies.

“There is an immutable law of crime,” Deputy Harris Kuhn told the residents. “If a criminal wants something bad enough, no matter what precautions you take, they are going to get it, no matter what the consequences are for the criminal.”

Kuhn said that the suspects, identified as Delarian Lee, 20, of San Francisco, Kethen Hubbard, 26, of San Francisco, and Rashima Barnett, 19, of Novato, were well-prepared for the crime.

“These guys came here ready to rock and roll,” Kuhn said, “They had scouted the area the day before, and they came with the tools and personnel to take the property.”

The deputies repeatedly praised Sterling Quad residents for the actions they took to prevent the robberies and the way they reacted to the crimes.

“I’m sorry your rooms were broken into,” Kuhn told the crowd, “but you did a great job locking doors and writing down serial numbers [of your electronics]. Normally when we go to laptop burglaries, the doors are open and the property is unattended.”

Kuhn emphasized the need to lock doors, especially the main doors leading into the dorm. The deputies themselves had entered the dorm through an unlocked door on their way to the meeting.

It remains unknown how the thieves entered the locked dorm, but the deputies assumed that the door was propped or someone let the suspects in.

Wendy Kalkus ‘11, whose laptop was stolen from her dorm room last week, attended the meeting with hopes to learn more about the safety of her dorm.

“My computer was gone, my roommate’s computer was gone and my roommate’s ipod was gone,” Kalkus said. “I definitely don’t think the dorm is as safe as I thought it was.”

Although she was unhappy with the burglaries, Kalkus was unable to think of anything she, or the Stanford police, could have done to stop the thieves.

“Being safe is fantastic, but I can’t think of what they would do differently,” she said.

The deputies repeatedly reminded residents to immediately report suspicious persons to the police, telling residents that seeing a suspicious person was a valid reason to call 911.

“We are an open and trusting community,” Kuhn said, “and we let randoms walk through the dorms without challenging them and seeing what their business is.”

Kalkus was nevertheless grateful for the police’s actions.

“They did a really good job of getting there right away,” she said. “They were at the scene before I even got back to my dorm.”