Crime Report: Blood, broken glass and brick found inside burglarized car

La Cañada Flintridge

July 29

Burglary, hot prowl: 1300 block of Descanso Drive. A woman left her home at around 9:45 a.m., securing all doors and windows in the process. Her son remained behind in his bedroom. When the woman returned home at around 6 p.m., she noticed a door leading into her dining room was opened and its glass smashed near the handle.

A quick survey of her home showed nothing appears to have been disturbed, and she called the sheriff’s department. Deputies observed a small rock lying on the floor inside the house and footprints on the ground inside near the door.

The victim said no one in the family wore shoes inside the house. The son said he’d stayed inside his room most of the day, playing a loud audio book, and had not heard anything unusual.

A video surveillance camera was located nearby, but the homeowner was away on vacation. Fingerprints were ordered.

La Crescenta

July 24

Burglary, vehicle: 3000 block of Community Avenue. A woman dropped off her grandchildren at around 5 p.m., parking her 2014 Chevy Equinox on the street. She had been at her son’s house for about an hour, when he went to take the trash out and noticed someone had broken her front passenger window and that the door was still ajar.

The victim told deputies there was fresh blood on some of the glass as well as on a brick left on top of a nearby trash can. Her purse, containing a Louis Vuitton wallet with six credit and debit cards and an unspecified amount of cash, was stolen from the front passenger’s seat. Several personal effects and clothing, including girls’ cotton panties, bottles of lotion and a pair of black shorts, were also missing.

Neighbors told the victim they’d seen a heavyset Latino male wearing a black baseball cap and backpack walking in the area at the time of the incident. The victim’s son retrieved her purse from a neighbor who’d located it, and deputies noticed it contained a white T-shirt that did not belong to her and had blood on it.

Other neighbors said they saw items strewn around the street. Several of them had also seen the heavyset man on or near their properties. Deputies noted in their report that a robbery had occurred shortly before this incident at a nearby 7-Eleven store. In that case, committed by a suspect matching the description provided by the Community Avenue neighbors.

July 28

Vandalism, vehicle: 5800 block of Edmund Avenue. A woman reported that sometime between 6 and 10 p.m. that day, someone vandalized her 2006 Volkswagen Beetle by pouring an unknown liquid substance onto the vehicle’s rooftop. The victim said the clear liquid, which she believed may have been lacquer, damaged the canvas rooftop as well as the her car’s custom paint job. A deputy noted the liquid had a strong chemical odor.

July 29

Attempted burglary, residence: 2200 block of Mountain Pine Drive. A woman left her home secured at around 6 a.m. on the morning of July 20, returning home on July 26 at around 11:30 p.m. The next day, she noticed a bedroom window was broken.

When she examined the house, she saw a metal rod had been left between fence slats on the north side of the house. She believes someone may have used the rod to try and open a gate lock, and that the broken window may have been an attempt to enter the home.

The victim said when she’d come home the night before, she noticed one of three packages delivered in her absence had been opened, though the sneakers inside remained. Tracking history on the shoes showed they were delivered on July 21.

The victim’s husband had seen someone on July 26 in a silver Toyota Tacoma parked in front of the house at around 5:36 p.m, but the vehicle drove off as he tried to write down its plate numbers. A partial plate identification was made that matched a vehicle registered to a home on the 6500 block of Quinton Lane in Tujunga.

Aug. 3

Vandalism, vehicle: 2400 block of Orange Avenue. A woman reported that sometime between 6 p.m. the day before and 9 a.m. that day, someone smashed the rear window of her 2009 Ford Edge with an unknown object. Nothing inside the vehicle appeared to have been disturbed or stolen, the woman told deputies.