Crime Report: Locker room thefts: 3 MacBook Pros stolen from backpacks at Flintridge Prep, AirPods at CV High
March 9
Vehicle theft: 2500 block of Mary Street, Montrose. A 2006 black Honda Shadow motorcycle was stolen from a driveway sometime between 5 p.m. March 8 and 5:45 p.m. March 9. While making the report its owner said he had arranged in December to sell it to a man who’d visited his home and inquired about it. At the time, the buyer wrote a check in the amount agreed upon and gave it to the seller, leaving with the key and the motorcycle’s manual. He said he’d return at a later time for the bike. The seller took the check to the bank where he learned there were insufficient funds in the buyer’s account. He called the man, who said he was moving money around his different accounts and that he would instead pay the seller in cash when he picked up the vehicle. But weeks went by and the “buyer” who had the key never returned. The check written in December was turned over to the sheriff’s station for an investigation.
March 11
Theft: 2900 block of Community Avenue, La Crescenta (CV High). A student reported that his AirPods in their case were stolen out of his backpack in the boys locker room while he was in a physical education class.
Burglary: 2600 block of Foothill Boulevard, La Crescenta (U.S. Bank branch). An employee reported that at about 9 a.m. on Monday, March 9 when she retrieved the contents of a cash deposit safe (into which customers can drop bags of cash from the building’s exterior), she found nine bags containing customer deposits of cash and one 4-inch glue board with a string attached. The last time deposits were removed from the safe by an employee was at 8:52 a.m. on Friday, March 6. The bank’s corporate security said the type of glue board and string found is a fishing device commonly used to steal customers’ deposits by placing it in the box and later fishing out any cash that might have stuck to it. It was unknown at the time of the report whether or not any cash had been taken by that means over the weekend.
Theft by access card: 5300 block of Ocean View Boulevard, La Cañada. A man reported discovering by viewing his credit report that someone had electronically transferred money from his Citibank credit card account to an unknown bank account on Feb. 6.
March 12
Grand theft: 3100 block of Paraiso Way, La Crescenta. A woman reported that someone stole two packages containing merchandise she’d ordered online, one of them containing two pairs of Valentino shoes and the other a Prada hat. She contacted UPS, which maintains the packages were delivered at 3:05 p.m. on Feb. 28 and that her initials are noted on one of the delivery slips. She says that’s impossible because she never received either package.
March 13
Burglary: 900 block of Berkshire Avenue, La Cañada. A man reporting a burglary at his home said he and his wife left the house at around 10 a.m. that day, locking up before they left. He said he received a phone call at about 11 a.m. from ADT home security company advising him there had been an alarm activation at his home. The victim thought that since several windows at the property had malfunctioned lately, a window had somehow triggered the alarm on its own, and he told ADT not to contact police. When he returned home about half an hour later, though, he found the interior of the home ransacked. A 4-foot-by-4-foot single-pane window in one room had been shattered, apparently to gain entry, and there were muddy footprints on the carpeting in that room. The only item the victim could immediately say was taken was a men’s watch from the master bedroom.
March 15
Grand thefts: 4500 block of Crown Avenue, La Cañada. (Flintridge Preparatory School). Three students reported on March 15 that their MacBook Pro laptops had been stolen out of their backpacks, which had been left in the men’s locker room during an afternoon volleyball game on Wednesday, March 11.
Compiled from reports on file at the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station.