A Bucks County Community College interim vice president arrested last week on burglary charges is no longer employed by the institution, a spokesperson said.
Albert F. McLaughlin, 47, was fired Aug. 7, days after his arrest by the Central Bucks Regional Police Department, according to a statement from community college spokesperson Dan Kanak.
McLaughlin had been employed as interim vice president for enrollment management from July 14 to Aug. 7.
“As reported by the Central Bucks Regional Police Department, Albert McLauglin is facing a felony charge of burglary and related misdemeanors related to unlawfully entering Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown on August 3, 2025,” Kanak said. “He was hired through normal procedures, which included standard background checks and professional references.”
McLaughlin was neither a faculty member or a dean, Kanak said.
The Central Bucks Regional Police Department shared surveillance images early last week of a man they alleged broke into the high school early Sunday morning.
According to police and court documents, the images from the high school’s security system were clear and led investigators to identify McLaughlin as the suspect.
Video footage shows McLaughlin inside the school from approximately 2 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. He was gathering items and placing them into a cart, police said.
The items were then stashed in an unlocked office in the high school, police said.
Police stated that McLaughlin entered the building wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, but left wearing a different T-shirt with the words “Run This Town” on the back.
The T-shirt, shorts, and a coffee mug he was holding when he left all came from the school, police said.
Video shows McLaughlin leaving the school with a backpack he did not have when he entered, police said.
An inventory following the incident found five shirts were missing, police said.
Central Bucks School District security staff told investigators that McLaughlin also entered the infirmary, rearranged supplies, and took a shower, police said.
McLaughlin was tasked by Bucks County Community College with expanding and diversifying enrollment pipelines for the community college, work on dual-enrollment strategy, create analytic dashboard, and drive enrollment. He previously worked as a performance coach for a plumbing and HVAC business, an operations director for a education company, and as a campus president for DeVry University and FORTIS College and Institutes, according to his Linkedin page.
The man’s Linkedin page touts him as a “transformative leader” with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in criminal justice and corrections and an MBA from DeVry University.
McLaughlin was arrested last Tuesday and charged with burglary, defiant trespassing, theft, and receiving stolen property. He was preliminarily arraigned before on-call District Judge Corryn Kronnagel. As of Wednesday morning, McLaughlin was being held in the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $100,000 bail.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
