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Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014
Open invitation
6:45 a.m. First block of Milwaukee Avenue. Burglary.
A deputy arrived at a home aftera report that someone had broken into it.
The woman who called said she had gone to sleep at about midnight, but her dog woke her up at about 3:30 a.m. or 4 a.m.
When she went to the living room to let the dog out, she saw that her wallet was open and her pill bottles were strewn across the floor.
She checked her wallet, and $200 was missing. The thief, or thieves, also stole 69 pills of 10 mg Lortab and 50 pills of 1 mg Klonopin.
The woman told deputies she thought she left the door unlocked.
Friday, Feb. 7
Imitatation the sincerest form of flattery
10:19 p.m. Seminole Woods Parkway. Unlawful operation of a motor vehicle identified as law enforcement.
Someone called the Sheriff’s Office to report a car flashing red and blue lights — and this car clearly wasn’t a police cruiser.
The caller said the car, a Pontiac, was flying down Seminole Woods Parkway, and the lights were coming from the dashboard.
A deputy and a police officer stopped the car, driven by an 18-year-old.
He told deputies he’d been fooling around with a computer application that flashes red and blue lights, and that he hadn’t used it while driving. He only started using it, he said, after another car — the one driven by the witness who called the Sheriff’s Office — started following him.
The witness said she’d been driving along Seminole Woods Parkway when a dark car flew up on her tail and then put something on the dash that flashed red and blue lights.
She saw three other cars pull over because of the flashing lights, she said, but called the Sheriff’s Office when she realized the car wasn’t a police vehicle. Then she followed the car until law enforcement officers arrived.
The teen’s parents came to pick up the car. Deputies filed a charging affidavit for unlawful operation of a motor vehicle identified as law enforcement.
Sunday, Feb. 9
Cash out: Pay up front
1:55 p.m. First block of Sentry Court. Fraud.
A local real estate agent was alarmed when she showed up at a home that was supposed to be vacant, and she found that the locks had been changed and the home was occupied — by a large pit bull.
She called the Sheriff’s Office, believing someone had broken in and was staying illegally.
A deputy was talking to the real estate agent in front of the house when a white station wagon pulled up. The driver asked the deputy and the real estate agent why they were there.
He said he’d rented the home on Feb. 7 after seeing it listed on Craigslist. The woman he spoke with about the property said she was a real estate agent and gave him a walk-through of the home, he said.
He agreed to lease it for $750 per month and pay for two years up front: a total of $18,000, in cash. He said he’d worked to save up the money and was worried he’d spend it if he held onto it.
The woman gave him a written copy of a lease agreement.
The deputy checked out the woman’s name and discovered that the man was right: she was, in fact, a real estate agent. The deputy’s report does not include her name.
The deputy tried to find the woman but was not able to.
The real estate agent who’d called the deputy agreed to let the man stay at the home for one extra night to remove his things.
The deputy plans to follow up on the case in the future.
Less than a crack shot
11:06 a.m. First block of Tobias Trail.
A deputy spoke to a man who said he’d awoken at about 3 a.m. after hearing what sounded like a gunshot outside.
He didn’t think much of it and went back to sleep, but later that morning he found a round of ammunition lodged in the vanity mirror in the master bedroom, and he called the Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy checked and found a bullet hole in the side of the house, and deputies checking the home’s perimeter found a large bloodstain on the asphalt of nearby Old Kings Road. They followed it into the woods to a deer carcass.
Deputies determined that someone had shot the deer with a large caliber rifle, then tried to hit it again with a smaller gun and missed. That second bullet entered the caller’s house.
The shell casing and spent round were collected as evidence.
