Crime

June 8

When you care enough to steal the very best you take it before 4:49 p.m. from a 29-year-old Kaufman man’s vehicle at a home in the 4700 block of Hallmark Drive.

July 1

Shortly before 11 a.m., an officer reported finding a gym bag “with assorted personal items” along the 6200 block of Interstate 635.

June 9

Reported at 3:31 p.m.: risky business. A brash would-be crook on June 7 attempted to steal from a U.S. Secret Service vehicle outside Bank of Texas on Sherry Lane.

June 16

When you have a pool, you want to avoid other P-words. Peek at these: Prowlers poached pool equipment on Palomar Lane. Such pilfering prompted a 60-yearold woman from the 5300 block to phone police at 7:11 p.m. Hope she didn’t have a party planned.

June 18

Reported at 6:04 p.m.: A “suspicious person” visiting Ulta Beauty at Preston Forest Village turned out to be a shoplifter.

June 23

Does the Dallas Police Department really consider this, as the online report calls it, a “routine investigation?” Officers responded at 3:57 p.m. to the 6600 block of Inwood Road because of a “lost police radio.” How was that one called in?

June 26

Reported at 8:19 p.m.: a “panhandler” received a criminal trespassing warning at the 7-Eleven at Preston Forest Square.

June 29

An employee at the Ulta store located at Preston and Forest reported that three people robbed the store, “forcefully” taking items around 7:30 p.m. June 29.

June 30

Someone in the 10000 block of Stone Canyon Road reported their car stolen around 9 a.m.

July 2

Police found a sad, lonely, abandoned vehicle in the 5000 block of Lovers Lane shortly before midnight.

July 3

At 11:14 p.m., a 44-year-old Dallas man reported that someone entered his car and pocketed some items without permission at Hillcrest High School.

July 4

At 4 a.m., a 41-year-old woman at the 6100 block of Interstate 635 reported that someone damaged her property “without consent.” Ask first, guys.

July 6

Before 11:49 a.m., a burglar broke a window to steal from a 41-year-old Irving man’s vehicle at a home in the 9100 block of Devonshire Drive.

July 7

Before 4:14 p.m. outside at Preston Center, a criminal pointed a gun at the head of a 52-year-old man.

July 9

Officers responded at 9:08 a.m. to a “major disturbance (violence)” at the 7-Eleven at Hillcrest Road and Northwest Highway, where an unwelcome visitor was warned away.

July 10

Reported at 1:22 p.m.: An aggressive shopper pushed and then wrestled with an employee of the 7-Eleven at Preston Forest Square.

July 11

Taken before 10:58 a.m. from a home in the 6800 block of Northport Drive: a 31-year-old man’s truck.

SKULDUGGERY of the MONTH: CRIME WATCH

Want to see fast? Want to see furious? Better view it at a theater rather than the streets of Dallas. At 1:50 a.m. July 5, officers arrested an 18-year-old man accused of watching illegal racing in the

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