Crime Report: Izzy Cycles burglarized again

La Cañada Flintridge

Dec. 18

Burglary: 300 block of Georgian Road. A woman arrived at her home at about 3 p.m. and disarmed the house security system. She heard rustling in the study and thought it was her husband, She called out, but he didn’t reply. She walked to the study, where she saw a white male of medium build, approximately 25 to 35 years old, who turned quickly and scurried down the hall and out of view. She then heard glass shattering, so ran out the front door and called the CV Sheriff’s Station. The suspect is believed to have opened closets, a dresser and cabinets, including a medicine cabinet. The victim said it did not appear that anything was missing. One window and one sliding-glass door were damaged during the break-in. The investigating deputy said he believed the suspect had attempted to enter via a bedroom window but discovered it wouldn’t open, so shattered the sliding glass door to gain entry. The shattering noise the woman heard, he surmised, came when the suspect exited through the slider, causing more glass to fall.

Dec. 19

Identity theft, ex-felon in possession of ammunition, parole violation: Angeles Crest Highway at Fairview Drive. A sheriff’s deputy driving eastbound on Vista Del Valle Road at 4 a.m. that day noticed that the 2004 Cadillac CTS that was driving directly in front of him did not come to a complete stop at the stop sign before turning southbound onto Haskell Street. He conducted a traffic stop on Angeles Crest at Fairview. The car had two female occupants. The driver said she did not have her driver’s license with her. When asked if it was suspended, she admitted it was, due to unpaid traffic tickets. When the women were asked if either was on parole, the passenger said she was on parole for carjacking. Both were asked to step out of the car so a parole compliance search could be conducted. A female deputy was called to the scene to assist. One unspent round of .22 ammunition was found on the floor where the passenger had been seated. The assisting deputy found in the passenger’s pocket a piece of paper with a list of 10 MasterCard and Visa numbers, along with people’s names, email addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers. The suspect said she had no idea how that piece of paper got into her pocket, nor where it came from. She and the car’s driver both denied knowing ammunition was in the car. The driver was arrested for driving on a suspended license but released in the field. The passenger, 52-year-old Los Angeles resident Susan Castanos, was taken into custody and booked at the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station.

Burglary: 4700 block of La Cañada Boulevard. The victim reported that she left the house at 9:30 a.m. and that her live-in housekeeper left the property at noon, locking up as she left. When the victim returned home at 4:30 p.m. she observed a drawer in her master bedroom where she stored jewelry was open. A ladies wristwatch was missing. She walked through the house and saw a couple of doors open, one to the outside and the other to the garage. She also noticed a towel and blanket had apparently been thrown on the floor of her housekeeper’s room, leading the victim to believe the home had been burgled. The investigating deputies determined entry had been made through a bathroom window. They also noted that earlier in the day there had been a report of two black men wearing black hoodies who had been seen entering a back yard on the same block.

Dec. 20

Grand theft: 2000 block of Hilldale Drive. Sometime between 10 p.m. Dec. 19 and 9:30 a.m. Dec. 20, someone entered an unlocked Toyota Prius and took a production light set, two tripods, a monopod and a video microphone from the vehicle’s trunk, which was left open by the suspect(s).

Dec. 21

Grand theft: 2100 block of Via Venado Street. A woman reported that sometime around Aug. 1 she placed all of her expensive jewelry in a bag and placed it inside a drawer in her bathroom. On Dec. 16 she discovered that four pieces of jewelry were missing from the bag, including a silver bracelet and a silver ring, both with turquoise stones, a gold charm holder and 20 gold charms. She told deputies that on Dec. 16 she hired two women to clean her home. She said they commented on her expensive antiques, had to be told several times to not open drawers and then spent an unusually long time in the bathroom from which the jewelry disappeared. The value of the missing items was not disclosed.

Dec. 22

Burglary: 1200 block of Flintridge Avenue. Sometime between 7 p.m. on Dec. 19 and 1 p.m. on Dec. 22, someone entered an unlocked attached garage through its side door and stole a mig welder, among other items.

La Crescenta

Dec. 16

Criminal threats: 2500 block of Cross Street. A 21-year-old was taken into custody after admitting to deputies investigating a family disturbance call that, while holding a closed knife he had threatened to cut his sister’s neck. The young man said the threat was made during an argument with his sister, after she said she was going to smash his Xbox video game console while he was at work.

Dec. 17

Petty theft: Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station, 4554 Briggs Ave. An individual working at the station reported that sometime between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2, a county-issued ballistic under-vest and a Motorola earpiece that was attached to it disappeared after they were left hanging outside his locker. When he returned to duty on Sept. 2, he noticed they were missing. He put out an email message to co-workers at that time. Since there were improvements being made to the locker room, he said he wanted to give ample time for replies. He reported the apparent theft on Dec. 17.

Dec. 18

Attempted burglary: 4300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. Sometime between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. that day, someone attempted to enter a home by smashing a bathroom window. The resident who reported the attempted break-in walked through her home with family members after discovering the broken window but didn’t notice that anything was missing.

Petty theft: 2800 block Paraiso Way. A man and his daughter living at the home reported that between the hours of 12:30 and 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 14, $360 in cash was taken from a bedroom drawer. They said a new housekeeper had worked at the property during the hours the money went missing. The victims said the housekeeper did not return to the home as scheduled and could not be reached at her cellphone number.

Dec. 20

Burglary: 2700 block of Foothill Boulevard, Izzy Cycles. Deputies responded to an alarm that sounded at the store at 10:22 p.m. The store has been burglarized more than once recently, so its owner had fortified the rear door with wood and had placed a heavy metal cabinet in front of it. But entry was made through that door, which had been forced open. A bicycle from the shop was found leaning against the wall of a nearby business. No other items appeared to have been removed from the store.

Montrose

Dec. 16

Burglary, residential: 2400 block of Carol Park Place. A woman said two Latino males, one wearing a black hat and the other a black hoodie, had knocked on her front door. She also saw them peering in her living room window. When she did not respond to their knocks, they walked along the side of her house, removed a window screen and partially opened the window. At that time, the victim yelled to the would-be intruders, “Put the screen back on!” On hearing that someone was home, the duo fled southbound on Briggs Avenue and out of view.