Crime Report: Window shattered at Orchard Supply Hardware

La Cañada

Dec. 13

Burglary, vehicle: 4400 block of Oak Grove Drive. A woman reported that sometime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day, someone entered her locked 2005 Volvo XC90 while it was parked at La Cañada High School. When she returned to her car, she noticed the front passenger side window had been smashed and several items, including an Yves St. Laurent leather handbag containing sunglasses and cosmetics pouches with makeup inside, had been stolen from the seat. No witnesses could be located, but fingerprints were ordered.

Dec. 23

Burglary, residence: 700 block of Greenridge Drive. A man left his locked home at approximately 5:30 a.m. that day and returned at 10:30 p.m. to find the house ransacked and burglarized. After the victim pulled into his garage, he noticed a guest room sliding door laying on the floor and the room disrupted. He then noticed the front door was open and all rooms had been ransacked. Deputies observed a window screen near the back kitchen that had been forced open and mud from a planter under the window smeared on the window ledge. The front door was determined to be the exit point. The victim told deputies several items had been stolen, including three watches, 12 name-brand handbags, 15 items of jewelry in addition to cash. The home’s security system had not been armed to accommodate the arrival of a handyman, the victim reported. Fingerprints were ordered.

Burglary, residence: 5800 block of Vista Miguel Drive. A man left his home around 11 a.m. and returned at 1:30 p.m. to discover someone had removed a kitchen window screen and broken the window to access his home. The residence had been ransacked and several items strewn about. The victim said someone had left a gray beanie hat in his bedroom that did not look familiar to him before leaving through the open front door, which had been locked. Photographs were taken, and the hat booked into evidence at the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station.

Grand theft, shoplifting: 663 Foothill Blvd. The store manager at TJMaxx notified deputies of a 4 p.m. burglary alarm call at the store. The manager said she saw a tall, slender black man wearing basketball shorts run out of the store and get into a blue Infiniti parked on Oakwood Avenue. A witness, a FedEx employee in the parking lot, told the manager the man who ran out was carrying purses with an “MK” symbol on them. The witness followed the Infiniti north on Oakwood Avenue toward Houseman Avenue, then on Gould Avenue until the car got onto the Foothill (210) Freeway. In the handbag section of the store, the manager noticed several empty hooks where Michael Kors handbags had been displayed. Other witnesses reported seeing a “gangster looking” male wearing the same clothes get into a blue Infiniti, pursued by the FedEx truck. A crime broadcast was initiated, but a search for the suspect was unsuccessful. The manager said she would arrange for video surveillance to be sent to the sheriff’s station.

Dec. 24

Burglary, residence: 300 block of Inverness Drive. A man and his wife had been staying at their second home in La Quinta on Dec. 18, when they received a call from their alarm company stating a hallway motion sensor had been activated at their Flintridge property. The homeowners did not want the alarm company to investigate the matter at the time. When they returned home, they saw a bathroom window had been shattered, allowing someone to gain entry into the house. The bedroom had been ransacked, and cabinets had been removed from inside the closet, revealing a wall safe that had been installed there. The drywall around the safe had been chipped away, but the victim said nothing had been removed from the safe. A .22-caliber rifle was taken from underneath a bed.

Dec. 27

Burglary, residence: 4800 block of Hill Street. A man reported that sometime between noon on Dec. 22 and 1 p.m. that day, someone entered his father’s house and ransacked it. The informant was acting under power of attorney on the behalf of his father, who is currently living in Irvine, and was in the process of clearing out and selling the home. Deputies observed that the kitchen and living room were untouched. But the bedrooms and bathrooms of the home had been disrupted, and the contents of drawers and medicine cabinets strewn about. The rear window screen in the master bedroom had been removed and appeared to have been the suspect’s point of entry and exit. The man said he didn’t know whether anything was missing, and no witnesses could be located.

La Crescenta

Dec. 25

Burglary, business: 3100 Foothill Blvd. An assistant manager at Orchard Supply Hardware told deputies that sometime around 6:56 a.m. that day, a large window in the garden area had been shattered. When the manager walked through the store and noticed some disarray, he checked the video surveillance. That’s when he observed a male, about 5 feet 10 to 6 feet in height with a slim build, wearing black clothing, gloves and a white baseball cap, walk through the aisles and place items into two black bags and a backpack, though the store was closed for the Christmas holiday. An officer noticed the suspect enter an exterior gate by cutting through a fence with a bolt cutter to access the store. He threw a concrete paver stone through the window, causing it to shatter. The manager could not tell which items were taken, and no witnesses could be located.

Montrose

Dec. 24

Burglary, vehicle: 4300 block of Rosemont Avenue. A man said that sometime between 11 p.m. the night before and 7:30 a.m. that day, someone entered his locked 2013 Honda Civic and stole a wristwatch from the side floor board in the process of ransacking the vehicle. The victim said he clearly recalled locking the vehicle the night before, but there were no signs of forced entry. A neighboring home appeared to have a surveillance camera pointed near the vehicle, but the woman said she would have to contact her husband to obtain footage.

Dec. 26

Uttering counterfeit securities: 1975 Verdugo Blvd. An employee at Wing Stop said that at 7:03 p.m., an unknown man entered the store and purchased a six-wing combo with fries and blue cheese dressing, using a counterfeit $20 bill. About 20 minutes later, another man entered the store and said the same person had paid him for something using counterfeit $20 bills, which he showed the employee. The man could not provide any identifying information about the suspect.