Crime Report: After exchange with panhandler, woman’s tire slashed

La Cañada Flintridge

Feb. 18

Burglary, residential: 4500 block of La Granada Way. A man reported that sometime between 8:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. that day, his home had been entered and numerous items taken. The point of entry and exit is believed to have been a sliding glass door at the rear of the property that had pry marks near the door handle. Although a complete inventory of missing items had not yet been made, it was immediately apparent to the victim that a 40-inch Samsung TV, a Nikon D90 camera and lenses, jewelry, purses and duffel bags full of fishing gear were missing from inside the house and tools had been taken from a tool chest in the garage.

Feb. 19

Vandalism: 4600 block of Commonwealth Avenue. A woman reported that when she was checking on a vacant lot she owns, she noticed someone had bent the chain-link fence there.

Feb. 20

Vandalism: 2100 block of Foothill Boulevard. A woman reported that after she parked her car at her workplace and was walking toward the building shortly before 7 a.m., a man approached her and asked her for money. When she continued walking, he followed after her for a brief time, shouting obscenities.

After she stepped into the business, she watched through the window as he returned to his vehicle, a green Chevy van in which another man and a white poodle were sitting. The victim said the van was then pulled up next to her Kia Optima. When she went out to the parking lot about 10 to 15 minutes later, she noticed that the rear tire of her car was flat and there was a 1-inch gash in it.

She told the responding deputy she believed the man who had approached her was responsible. He was described as white, with curly blond hair, green eyes, thinly built, about 30 years old, wearing a T-shirt, jeans and white socks. She said he appeared to be under the influence of narcotics.

Burglary, residential: 3900 block of Alta Vista Drive. A woman reported that at 4 p.m. on Feb. 17 she received notification from her alarm company that a burglar alarm had been triggered, but believing it was a false alarm, she told them not to call the police.

Two days later, she noticed French doors leading from a balcony into a second-story TV room were open inward and that there were pry marks next to the locking mechanism. No items in the room appeared to have been disturbed, so it was surmised by a responding deputy that the burglar alarm had scared off the intruder(s).

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Carol Cormaci, carol.cormaci@latimes.com

Twitter: @CarolCormaci