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Someone rolled the mower away.
Spring was in bloom and lawns turning green. Recent rains had caused Diana Foster’s grass to grow, and it needed to be cut. As she does every spring, Foster walked to her rear shed ready to crank up her Toro walk-behind lawn mower. After opening the shed in the rear of her Elmwood Historical Neighborhood home, she quickly realized the mower was gone. Foster inherited the home and has lived there for 11 years without experiencing any crime previous-
The Victim: Diana Foster
The Crime: Burglary of a storage shed
Date: Thursday, May 9
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 2100 block of Elmwood ly. As she spoke with the Advocate, Foster was in the process of looking for the serial number of the mower for police.
“I didn’t have the shed fully locked,
Sean but I didn’t expect them to go through my gate,” she says. “Too bad they didn’t take the other one in the shed instead — it didn’t work.”
The mower was worth about $300, and the loss is quite annoying and costly for Foster. She recommends keeping gates locked — even using chains to make things more difficult for burglars. Her thoughts? If burglars have to work harder on a lock or chain, they might just move on to somewhere else.
Dallas Police Lt. Gil Garza of the Southwest Patrol Division agrees that secure chains and locks can act as a deterrent to criminals. He says anti-bolt-cutter locks or anti-theft locks are round and more difficult to manipulate and have less area exposed to cut. There are also chains to deter bolt cutters, and sensor lighting is always a good deterrent.
“I would also encourage folks to put away their things and make it less inviting for criminals to take,” he says.
Additionally, Garza recommends that equipment even inside a shed can also be secured with chains or locks to make things even more difficult for a burglar.
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Times the same guy robbed the 7-Eleven store on Tyler at Ninth at knifepoint over 27 hours in May
Cash, a can of Monster energy drink and a pack of cigarettes were stolen in the first robbery
Cash and more cigarettes were stolen in the second and third robberies
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