Crime Report: Surveillance footage shows woman taking wallet from store counter
April 11
Burglary, residence: 900 block of Regent Park. A man reported that sometime between 9:50 a.m and noon that day, someone broke into his home by smashing a sliding-glass door in a bedroom. Although several rooms and closets inside the residence were ransacked, the victim did not believe anything was stolen.
April 12
Burglary, residence: 4700 block of Indianola Way. A man told deputies that sometime between 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 6 and 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, someone entered his house and stole a refrigerator. The suspect also pried a lock off a backyard storage container and stole several power tools, including a hand and table saw, from inside. Deputies observed the latch to the container had been pried off and the interior ransacked. The victim, who remodels homes, said he’d recently hired three men to install drywall throughout the house. He’d been referred to them through a friend.
Theft, wallet: 2100 block of Foothill Boulevard. A woman said she was in the Ross Dress for Less store just before 1 p.m. when she placed her wallet, containing U.S. and Mexican currency, on the counter during her transaction at the checkout. She left the store, forgetting her wallet, and immediately returned to where she’d left it, but it was missing. The victim reported the incident to a manager, who checked the store’s video surveillance footage. A black female in her 30s, about 5 feet 4 inches and weighing about 170 pounds and wearing an orange, long-sleeve blouse was shown approaching the counter after the victim’s departure and taking the wallet. The suspect was then seen searching the wallet, before returning several items at the counter for an exchange. She left the store after the transaction.
April 13
Grand theft, unlocked vehicle: 400 block of Foothill Boulevard. A man told deputies on the previous Saturday at 1 p.m. he’d parked his 2007 Honda Accord in front of a location, and that he’d inadvertently left its doors unlocked. When he returned an hour later, he noticed a black leather bag containing his company-issued HP Elite Book laptop had been taken from the rear driver’s side seat. Nothing else was reported as missing or disturbed.
April 15
Petty theft, unlocked vehicle: 300 block of Georgian Road. A woman said sometime between 5:30 a.m. and 7:10 a.m., someone entered her unlocked 2013 Volkswagen Touareg while it was parked in front of her residence. When she returned to the vehicle, she saw that it had been ransacked and a medical document for her daughter and a pair of Sam Edelman high heels had been taken from inside. The suspect had left the trunk ajar after departing.
April 16
Grand theft: 1100 block of Lavender Lane. A couple had called in their cleaning service for a regular 10:45 a.m. cleaning that day and returned home at around 7 p.m. to discover the husband’s wedding ring and the wife’s contact lenses were missing. The following morning, the female victim called the owner of the cleaning service to advise him of the missing items and was told one of the man’s employees had been arrested for “stealing items from every house they cleaned yesterday.” He said the Simi Valley Police Department had arrested the woman. An officer with the department later told the victims the ring and contact lenses had been turned in at the time of the suspect’s arrest. Details on the suspect were not immediately available at the time of the report.
Petty theft: 4500 block of Palm Drive. A woman reported that sometime between 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. that day, someone stole 50 paving stones from her backyard. Deputies observed the imprints of the missing stones in the dirt. The victim said she had no idea who might have taken them.
Petty theft: 400 block of Foothill Drive. An employee of a local business said that sometime between 3 and 5 p.m. that day, someone stole a pallet loaded with 55 empty milk crates from outside the business, where they were stored.
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Sara Cardine, sara.cardine@latimes.com
Twitter: @SaraCardine
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