First a trailer , now a mower.

The Victim: Len Miller

The Crime: Burglary

Date: Tuesday, May 28

Time: Between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Neighbors recently had seen men cruising the alleys in pickups, Len Miller says of his Meadows neighborhood. The men didn’t appear to be residents of the area and may have had criminal intentions — scouting out easy opportunities to make off with someone else’s property. One night recently, a neighbor walked outside to find two men rummaging through his car. They fled the scene when discovered. While the men have not been identified, Miller has been the victim of crime himself recently.

Location: 7400 block of Meadow Oaks

Someone helped themselves to the Snapper lawn mower in his garage, a loss of about $300. Last year, he also had a trailer stolen from his driveway. Even though the trailer had cables on the wheels, a lock on the hitch and was squeezed in tight against his gate, house and a vehicle on three sides, someone managed to move it and tow it away.

“It’s just a pain,” he says of the recent crimes.

At this point, Miller says he will just have to get another mower and move on.

Lt. Richard Dwyer of the North Central Patrol Division says it is imperative for residents to always keep garages closed and locked if at all possible.

“Most people don’t realize they’re spending an hour or hour and a half working in the backyard or away from the garage, and that is more than enough time for someone to take something,” he says.

This small effort can be preventative, he says, and cause a crook to move on to another location.

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Time of morning when a 26-year-old woman was greeted with a rubber mallet to the head while walking into her Preston Hollow workplace May 13

Location of the building on Hillcrest the woman was walking into when a man (police don’t have an accurate description) said, “Good to see you this morning,” before hitting her on the side of the head and stealing her purse 4

Number of items stolen from the woman’s purse

Source Dallas Police Department