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10 March 2022 | prestonhollowpeople.com
Crime Reports for Jan. 10 – Feb. 6 Jan. 10 What can happen when you leave your stuff unattended at Clothes Circuit in Preston Center? Reported at 4:48 p.m.: a woman learned someone had taken hers.
Jan. 11 What’s it called when you abandon a vehicle outside a home in the 5800 block of Preston Haven Drive? The 11:32 a.m. call was dispatched as a “parking violation.” Jan. 13 Reported at 11:36 a.m.: a scary situation. A woman in the 6500 block of Stefani Drive “believed an unknown suspect pointed a handgun at her.” Jan. 15 Which makes you scratch your head more: that someone slept in the Walgreens at Northwest Highway and Lemmon Avenue after hours on Jan. 15 or that officers weren’t dispatched until 6:10 p.m. the next day? Jan. 16 Sometimes opportunity doesn’t need to knock. Before 7:58 a.m., a lucky prowler found doors left unlocked to a home and vehicle in the 6700 block of Park Lane. The crook rummaged through the man’s vehicle and took stuff from the couple’s house.
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Jan. 20 Reported at 10:47 a.m.: a cold case. A prowler snatched the heater from the backyard (no longer a) hot tub at a home in the 6400 block of Royalton Drive. Jan. 21 Before 10:54 p.m., a vandal damaged a fence at a home in the 6100 block of Joyce Way. Jan. 22 Will a wit turn dim without morning coffee? Officers responded at 7:42 a.m. to Starbucks on Inwood Road across from Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas for a call initially dispatched as a major disturbance (violence). There they gave someone they called, “The Wit,” a criminal trespassing warning. Crime reports normally aren’t that complimentary. Jan. 24 Reported at 7:46 a.m.: easy pickings. An
Jan. 25 It’s no fun to get your vehicle’s window broken out at the “Y-M-C-A!” Before 2:24 p.m., a woman learned that at the Semones Family YMCA (Town North) on Northaven Road. Jan. 26 Before 8:18 p.m. during a fight in the parking lot near Beading Dreams and Yaya Foot Spa on Lovers Lane, an armed menace injured a man with a handgun. Jan. 27 Before 11:45 a.m., a prowler snatched contents from a vehicle at a home in the 6400 block of Northport Drive. Jan. 28 Reported at 7:33 a.m.: breakfast mayhem? Officers responded to the corner of Preston Center nearest Preston Road and Northwest Highway (where Starbucks is located) and gave an unwelcome visitor to a restaurant a criminal trespassing warning. Then at 11:47 a.m., police responded to the same general location and cited someone for trespassing at a vacant store space. Jan. 29 Burglarized before 5:49 p.m.: a man’s vehicle at a home in the 7200 block of Ashington Drive. Feb. 1 A man at a home in the 11200 block of Inwood Road “believes someone took his car keys” before 1:11 p.m. Feb. 2 Stolen before 4 p.m. at the Zale’s store in NorthPark Center: six rings for a couple of rogues who smashed the display case with a sledgehammer and vanished on foot. Feb. 3 Stolen overnight before 9:31 a.m.: a man’s vehicle at a home in the 6800 block of Bandera Avenue.
Feb. 5 Before 6:25 p.m., three robbers threatened a woman and stole from her at a home in the 12700 block of Sunlight Drive. Feb. 6 Before 1:48 p.m., a vandal damaged a woman’s vehicle at a home in the 5700 block of Harvest Hill Road.
SKULDUGGERY of the MONTH: GENERAL APPEARANCE? Arrested at 1:51 p.m. Feb. 1 at NorthPark Center: a 21-yearold man accused of dressing like a soldier and possessing a fake military ID. For More Crimes:
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Jan. 18 Before 8:32 a.m., a burglar smashed a window and stole a purse from a woman’s vehicle at the Primrose School of Park Cities on Inwood Road.
opportunistic purse snatcher couldn’t resist the loot left in an unlocked vehicle at Preston Royal Village.
