- November 22, 2024
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Pizza trouble
8:21 p.m. — 100 Block of Benjamin Drive
Stolen Vehicle. The victim said she was delivering pizza and was standing at a front door. She noticed a red car back up to her vehicle. Moments later, she heard her delivery car start. She looked and saw that someone was driving it away. She said she had left her keys on the console.
Later, a Holly Hill officer saw the car but broke off a chase after the car sped up and drove recklessly. It no longer had the pizza store sign on the roof.
The victim had left $80 in the car, along with a wallet with social security card, student ID, debit card and credit card. The car belongs to the victim’s mother.
No returns
Noon — 100 Block of South Nova Road
Petit Theft. The store owner showed the police officer video of the suspect, an employee, printing an extra copy of a customer’s receipt. Later, the suspect processed a cash refund with the receipt with no customer present.
The suspect admitted to making refunds in the past for a total of $480 and was charged with petit theft.
Watch your language
11:46 a.m. — Airport Road and Leeway Trail
Vandalism. The housing development has a sign at a corner with announcements for residents entering or exiting. The home-owners association president told police that overnight someone opened the clear plastic cover and rearranged the letters to spell out curse words. They also damaged the cover.
Messy thief
8:11 p.m. — First Block of Treasure Lane
Car Break. The victim said she went out to her car at 5:30 a.m. and placed her work laptop on the back seat and left the doors unlocked. On her way to work at 7:10 a.m., she realized the glove box was open. She then noticed her laptop was missing, and there was a napkin from a restaurant, where she had not been, on the front seat.
Not safe with replacement
1:10 a.m. — 300 Block of West Granada Boulevard
Theft. The fast-food restaurant manager said she had a manager, borrowed from another store, closing the store. During the shift, she received a call from employees saying he ran out of the store and left them there. The suspect was supposed to be at the store until 4 a.m.
She responded to the store and discovered $15,000 missing from the safe count.
Deja Vu
3:51 p.m. — First Block of Vining Court
Theft. The victim said his bicycle was stolen from the rack outside his condo. He could only describe it as a dark-blue mountain bike with an evidence sticker from when it was stolen five years ago. It was valued at $100.
Big shirt
7:59 a.m. — 1500 Block of West Granada Boulevard
Shoplifting. The employee watched the suspect walk around the store and place items in his shirt that was tucked into his pants. As the suspect left the store, the employee walked up to him, and the suspect began to run.
Items began to fall from his shirt. The employee was able to recover eight cans of antifreeze valued at $14.47 each, four packages of Gains laundry pods valued at $8.97 and a box of tea valued at $1.98.
The suspect got away, and the employee said he recognized him as someone who had stolen from the store in the past.
