Taxi Driver Accused of Credit Card Theft

June 27

A car was struck and damaged overnight on the 4400 block of Wentworth Avenue South.

June 26

A CARAG resident was robbed of his wallet around 2:20 a.m. on the 3300 block of Colfax Avenue as he walked home from the bar.

The drivers-side window of a car parked on the 6100 block of Nicollet Avenue overnight. An unreported amount of money was stolen from the car.

An Armatage resident reported her bank card stolen and all the money from her bank account taken. She told police she thought her ex-boyfriend had taken the card and the money.

A driver accidentally left the keys in car after parking it  on the 4200 block of Lyndale Avenue south overnight. In the morning, the car was gone.

A residential burglary was reported on the 4400 block of Aldrich Avenue south, but the police report had not been submitted into the Minneapolis Police Department’s electronic file system as of press time.

An unkown suspect gained entry into the garage of a house on the 5000 block of Lyndale Avenue between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., possibly using a garage door opener that disappeared in a second burglary earlier this month.

A Windom resident told police that a Checker Cab driver was upset that they had paid with a credit card. The resident accused the driver of making a carbon copy of their card, and using it to make several purchases on the Apple iTunes store.

Several bikes were stolen from outside a Windom house.

A Livermore, California resident reported his iPhone stolen after leaving it in the locker room of the Blaisdel Avenue YMCA. The victim said he had been able to track it using a website provided by the Apple company until Friday, when the phone was either turned off or had its data wiped.

June 25

A car was stolen from the 5300 block of Grand Avenue overnight. The owner said a spare set of keys may have been left in the car’s center console.

A car was stolen from the 3600 block of Bryant Avenue between 5:23 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. The owner told police that the car’s keys had been lost a week prior to the incident.

Returning from a walk, a Windom resident was robbed in her backyard, on the 5600 block of Wentworth Avenue South.

Overnight, the catalytic converter was sawed off of a car parked on the 4100 block of Blaisdel Avenue in Kingfield.

A CARAG resident reported their watch stolen from their dresser while their apartment on the 3400 block of Fremont Avenue was being shown to potential new renters. The real estate agent conducting the showings denied involvement.

A resident of the 6100 block of Nicollet Avenue told police her ex-boyfriend stole several items from her house between June 18 and June 22.

June 24

Police responded to a report of damaged property on the 4100 block of Nicollet Avenue.

A Kingfield resident reported their car missing from the spot where they had last parked it on June 22. The car’s spare set of keys had been missing since March of this year, and no broken glass was evident at the scene.

A Lyndale resident was cited for tampering with their neighbor’s car, after trying to turn off the car alarm without the owner’s permission.

A car was broken into at the intersection of Lake Harriet Parkway, Linden Hills Boulevard, and Queen Avenue between 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and unspecified items were taken.

June 23

Police received a report of damaged property on the 3400 block of Colfax Avenue.

A car was reported broken into on Lake Harriet Parkway West.

June 22

A car was stolen from the driveway of a house on the 4800 block of Dupont Avenue between 3:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Keys were not left in the vehicle.

An iPad was reported stolen from a house on the 4100 block of Chowen Avenue.

A $3,000 blue-and-white Trek Madone bicycle with black bar tape and a Discovery Channel sticker was stolen out of a car parked on the 3800 block of Washburn Avenue.

A resident of the 5700 block of Lyndale Avenue reported someone broke into his room and stole over $1,000 worth of his property.

A resident of the 3500 block of Grand Avenue told police he thought he heard someone trying to force open the door to his neighbor’s apartment. When police arrived, they found no evidence of damage and the apartment’s resident reported no losses.

An unknown suspect entered the unlocked garage of a house on the 3500 block of Grand Avenue and removed two bicycles.

A resident of the 3900 block of Xerxes Avenue reported $513 in unauthorized charges made to his card in Saratoga Springs, New York. The victim told police his bank had been notified.

A car parked in the driveway of a house on the 4800 block of Dupont Avenue was broken into overnight. Two headphones and protective eyewear were taken.