Sheriff's deputies had arrested a man on suspicion of stealing five computers from the Boys & Girls Club in Val Verde over the weekend, but the computers were still missing Tuesday, leaving some children in the community without a way to finish their homework.

Authorities arrested 27-year old Rafael Cisneros, of Castaic, on Monday, said Sgt. Darren Harris of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station. Cisneros was being held on $20,000 bail.

"If (the computers) don't get replaced, kids won't have access to the Internet for homework," said sheriff's Deputy Brian Rooney, who runs the Youth Activity League out of the same building as the club. "Parents out here don't have the means to take their kids to the library."

Thieves kicked a hole through the back wall of the Boys & Girls Club building late Sunday or early Monday and made off with the club's Dell computers, children's backpacks, a pencil sharpener and a basketball, said Jaime Briano, the Val Verde branch manager.

The theft will hit the community hard, Rooney said.

About 30 kids use the computers each day; adults use them to print out resumes, he said.

"Out of 1,500 people in Val Verde, about 5 percent have computers at home," Rooney said. "When adults need to print something, they're doing it here. It's a main hub for this little town."

The computers were purchased with the help of a community grant in April and are worth $3,500, said Bryan Lake, the club's director of administration. The Boys & Girls Club doesn't have the money to replace the computers, Lake said.

The Boys & Girls Club was burglarized in a similar fashion about six years ago, Rooney said.

Briano said the thieves knew exactly what they were taking.

"This is something I wish we could have avoided; the (computer lab) is a crime scene," Briano said. "This is like a home to these kids. To see a hole in the wall and wire everywhere. Folks from the crime lab were here and we couldn't camouflage it. The kids know we got ripped off."