- November 23, 2024
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Saved by the text; car vandals stop to offer to elementary school insults; cat burglar uses litter box to help rob a tavern's safe; and, get off my lawn.
COMPILED BY WAYNE GRANT
Aug. 21.
Con text
8:46 p.m. — 600 Block of South Nova Road. Suspicious Incident. The victim dropped the suspect off at home and watched her go inside, the victim told police. That's when the victim noticed her wallet was missing.
The victim said she went into the suspect's house but discovered she had left. The victim and an officer later found the suspect, who explained that the victim had picked her up at her Derbyshire Road apartment and gave her $300 to buy narcotics. When the transaction took longer than expected, the suspect said, the victim drove off.
The suspect had numerous text messages on her phone supporting her version of the story. She was not in possession of any drugs, however.
The officer told the victim that, based on the texts, he believed the incident was narcotics-related and a theft never occurred. The victim said, “It is what it is,” and “I’ll deal with her.”
Aug. 17
Where's Weirdo
11:02 a.m. — 1200 Block of Scottsdale Drive. Vandalism. The victim told police that two suspects in a small red car slowly drove by his residence the previous night, while he was looking through his open trunk. The car went about 10 feet past his house and then backed up.
The suspects stopped behind him, stared at him, called him a weirdo then sped away.
The next morning, the victim found the fuel tank door open and damaged with pry marks. There were also pry marks on both the driver and passenger doors.
Aug. 16
'Kitten' me? Got to be a cat burglar
3:23 a.m. — 900 Block of N. U.S. 1. Burglary. A police officer responded to a tavern alarm to find a window open in back with a litter box underneath, in position to help a person climb through the window. The owner of the tavern arrived and found that a small safe under the bar was open and about $1,000 was missing.
The officer noted that the safe would be hard to locate by someone who didn’t know it was there.
The business is covered by eight video cameras, which recorded a male, wearing a red bandanna over his nose and mouth, entering the window. The video then showed the suspect collecting something under the office door and then walking immediately to the small safe, bypassing the cash register. The alarm then went off and the video shows the suspect running toward the window.
The owner said he had never seen the litter box before and the people who live in a house behind the tavern probably have cats. He said people move in and out of the residence and a part-time employee lives there. The litter box was taken as evidence. Finger prints were taken from the window.
Aug. 19
Property lie-nes
6:02 p.m. — 20 Block of Charleston Square. Civil Complaint. The victim's neighbor cut down a fence post he had installed to help support his gate, he told police, following an ongoing property dispute.
He said the neighbor had told him to remove the post but he refused, saying it was on his property. Later, the victim saw his neighbor go into her garage with a circular saw. The neighbor admitted that she cut the post down but said it was on her property. Both parties were directed to get a survey to determine where their property lines end.
