Crime

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.

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.

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 opportunistic purse snatcher couldn’t resist the loot left in an unlocked vehicle at Preston Royal Village.

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 North-

west 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.

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