Crime Report: No items reported missing at dental office burglary
La Cañada Flintridge
Aug. 1
Burglary, business: 400 Foothill Blvd. At around noon, deputies responded to a burglary alarm call at a dental office and discovered upon arrival a back window had been smashed.
Someone had taped a lower right corner window and shattered it with an unknown object. A nearby back door was left open. During a sweep of the property, deputies saw blood drops on a back-room floor and blood marks on a bathroom door off the main hallway.
When the owner arrived, he reported leaving the day before at around 3 p.m., securing all doors and windows and setting the alarm in the process. He said the office contained cameras. Video footage showed a male Latino around 20 to 35 years old, about 5 feet 10 and weighing 160 to 190 pounds, wearing a light colored shirt and jeans, break the window and enter it.
The suspect then backed into the hallway, where his activity triggered the alarm. He then left through the back door. No items were initially reported missing.
Aug. 11
Grand theft, lawn mower: 1200 block of El Vago Street. A woman told deputies that sometime between 5 p.m. the day before and 9 a.m. that day, someone stole her Honda self-propelled lawn mower from her unsecured backyard. The victim contacted her longtime gardeners, who’d last used the mower on Aug. 6, to find out if they may have had it, but they said they’d returned it to the yard the same day.
Aug. 12
Burglary, residence: 4600 block Alveo Street. Deputies were responding to a call of a home burglary, when another call came in from a nearby location indicating two males had been seen running through a resident’s back yard.
The man had been sitting in his living room when a motion light outside came on. He saw two white males, in their teens, about 5 feet 9 and 5 feet 10, wearing clothing that covered their faces. A search for the suspects was unsuccessful, but deputies discovered a black beanie on the curb of a nearby home that had been the location of the burglary call.
The homeowner had left the residence at about 6:45 p.m. to have dinner with his family, leaving a sliding-glass door open for the dog. When they came home at 9:10 a.m., they saw the home had been ransacked.
Two necklaces, three watches, a pair of earrings and a class ring had been stolen, in addition to an unspecified amount of cash, the victim reported.
Aug. 14
Petty theft, business: 920 Foothill Blvd. A woman reported someone had stolen her wallet from her purse while she was shopping at Sprouts Farmers Market. She was in the produce section and left her open purse in her cart. When she returned, she noticed her purse “felt light” and discovered her wallet, containing personal cards, cash and checks, had been taken.
She notified the store manager, who reviewed video surveillance footage and saw a black male in his 30s, about 6 feet 1 and weighing 180 pounds, wearing a long-sleeved, light blue button-up shirt and jeans, take the wallet. The suspect had entered the store at 3:39 p.m., followed by another black male of a similar age, about 5 feet 10 and weighing 230 pounds, wearing a rust-colored shirt and white shorts.
The theft occurred at 3:47 p.m. and the two men were seen exiting the store at 3:48 p.m. Deputies noted a surveillance camera at a nearby ATM machine may have caught the suspects’ vehicle.
Aug. 16
Petty theft, unlocked vehicle: 4440 Woodleigh Lane. A woman reported that she’d left her unlocked 2006 Nissan Sentra parked in the northwest portion of the Thursday Club parking lot at around 6 p.m. to attend a wedding. When she returned at around 10:20 p.m., she noticed the inside of the vehicle had been ransacked and several items, including a cellphone, diabetes blood sugar reader, makeup, jewelry and two unplayed scratch-off lottery tickets had been taken.
A deputy observed several plastic caps from the reader needles and bobby pins on the ground near the driver’s side door. A parking attendant said employees, who patrol the lot every 30 minutes, did not see anything unusual.
Vandalism, residence: 4800 block of La Cañada Boulevard. A man told deputies that sometime between 11:30 p.m. the day before and that afternoon, someone had poured what appeared to be mustard onto his driveway and pelted his front lawn with eggs and toilet paper.
The victim said he would have to hire a company to steam clean the mustard off the pavement. He said his son had received a call from a blocked number, asking him to come out to the front of the house.
Deputies surmised the damage had been committed by the son’s classmates. The victim said this was the fifth time his home had been vandalized and he desired prosecution.
Aug. 18
Burglary, residence: 200 block of St. Katherine Drive. Deputies responded to a burglary alarm call at 11:39 a.m., according to Lt. Bill Jaeger, a watch commander with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station. When deputies arrived at the home, they surmised that someone had attempted to enter the rear of the residence through a back kitchen door. That attempt had triggered the alarm, and the sheriff’s response. By the time the deputies arrived, however, the suspect was no longer at the scene and no witnesses could be located, Jaeger said Wednesday.
La Crescenta
Aug. 9
Burglary, business: 2660 Foothill Blvd. An employee of Valero Foothill Gas Mart arrived to work at around 8 a.m. and saw a window had been shattered. Upon entering, he reported, nothing appeared to have been stolen, although some papers on the printers were disheveled, the power supply to the video surveillance was off and the phone line had been cut.
Video footage showed a dark, newer model two-door car, possibly a Honda, with black custom rims and a white Mini Cooper pulling into the station and parking in the front at 3:59 a.m. Three minutes later, both vehicles exited, driving west on Foothill and making a left turn onto Raymond Avenue, out of view.
At 4:10 a.m., two adult males wearing hoodies walked around the northwest corner of the location and shattered a window with what appeared to be a metal rod. They enter the store and walked to the cashier area, where they disabled the camera at 4:11 a.m.
Deputies noted in their report at about 5:20 a.m. that same day, another burglary had occurred at La Crescenta Car Wash, with suspects using similar methods of entry.
Aug. 11
Petty theft, unlocked vehicle: 2500 block of Teasley Street. A woman reported that sometime between 3 p.m. the day before and 7:40 a.m. that day, someone entered her unlocked 2010 Chrysler Town & Country van while it was parked in front of her residence. The suspect stole the victim’s purse, which contained a cellphone battery pack, packet of tissues and $50 in cash. Two prescription bottles were also taken from the glove compartment.
Aug. 14
Burglary, business: 2600 block of Foothill Boulevard. A local business owner reported that at 2:59 a.m., someone broke into her business, entering a west-facing door and security door. The suspect attempted to disable an alarm system and cut one of the video-surveillance camera cables, but did not appear to have stolen anything from inside.
Video surveillance showed two unidentifiable individuals enter the location and look through drawers and cabinets, possibly for money. Deputies observed a damaged deadbolt on the exterior wood door and a fresh pry mark below the lock. The lock was also damaged, and a cable was seen hanging from the alarm system’s control box.
Vandalism, vehicle: 4400 block of Rosemont Avenue. A man reported that sometime between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. that day, someone scratched his 2005 Toyota Tacoma with an unknown object along its entire passenger side. Photographs were taken, but no video surveillance cameras could be found.
Montrose
Aug. 16
Burglary, residence: 2700 block of Mayfield Avenue. A man told deputies sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. that day, someone had entered his unlocked residence and ransacked the living room and bedroom, breaking a 55-inch flat screen television and a 36-inch circular mirror with a wood frame in the process. The victim said no items appeared to have been stolen. There were no signs of forced entry, the deputy noted in the report.
