Friday, August 10, 2012
Minneapolis police mum on connection to July spree.
Thursday afternoon, the Minneapolis Police Department announced the latest in a string of arrests in Southwest Minneapolis burglaries. As Patch reported Thursday morning, officers had arrested James Earl Eason on Aug. 2 for trying to cut the screen on a window of a house on the 3600 block of 1st Avenue South. According to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Jail Roster, Eason has been formally charged with attempted burglary, and is being held in custody on $30,000 bail. Police also announced the arrest of another man collared on Sunday after an alert resident of the 3400 block of Colfax Avenue South noticed a strange man lurking around her house and peering into windows. Police say the resident noticed her window had been opened while she was …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
A roundup of burglaries, robberies, thefts, and other property crimes in Southwest Minneapolis in the last week.
July 30 Officers were dispatched to an address on West 56th Street on a report of a car damaged by another car. A 24-year old Windom resident was cited for careless driving. A resident of the 3300 block of Pillsbury Avenue South called police to report a suspicious person in their alley combing through neighbors’ recycling bins. Officers found a person matching the caller’s description, who was carrying a grocery bag full of crushed metal cans in the alley behind the 3200 block of Blaisdell Avenue South. The individual was cited for unauthorized removal of recyclable materials. Between midnight and 7 a.m., a car was broken into on the 700 block of 37th Street West. A caller reported their garage on the 5000 block of Oliver Avenue South had…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Burglaries have surged this summer in the Fifth Precinct; additional officers will be on the streets.
In the dark of Friday night, someone quietly slipped into a yard on the 4900 block of Stevens Avenue South. Unseen, they discovered the side door of the house's garage had been left unlocked. They easily made their way inside then, according to a police report of the incident, they easily made off with a $2,000 bicycle with striking black-and-white Holstein-paterend handlebar tape, and disappeared into the night. With any luck, the numbers of burglaries like that—reported to the Minneapolis Police Department on Sunday—will start to drop across Southwest Minneapolis. On Monday evening, the department announced the arrests of three men over the last week who had been suspects in this summer's rash of garage burglaries in the Fifth Precinct…
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A roundup of burglaries, robberies, and other property crimes reported last week in Southwest Minneapolis.
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…
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A roundup of burglaries and other property crimes committed in Southwest Minneapolis during the last week.
A 34-year-old man subletting his condo on the 4400 block of Lake Harriet Parkway left a key for the new tenants under the apartment’s front door mat, but his ex-wife found the key, entered the condo on May 21 and removed items. May 21 The car of a resident of the 3700 block of Nicollet Avenue was rear-ended while parked in front of the resident’s home at sometime between 10 a.m. May 20 and 11 a.m. May 21. A resident of the 4700 block of Chowen Avenue was the victim of a multi-day theft as her bacopa plant, couch cushions and garden ornaments went missing from her front yard on consecutive nights. The front window was broken and the GPS stolen from the car of a Minneapolis resident who had parked in the lot owned by Smith Sturm Investment …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
A roundup of burglaries and other property crimes committed in Southwest Minneapolis during the last week.
A self-described “extremely intoxicated” Breezy Point, Minnesota resident was assaulted and robbed at around 2 a.m. at Tailgate Sports Cafe. The man said that his wallet and a new pair of shoes were taken. April 23 Police responded to a call from a SuperAmerica on the 3400 block of Nicollet Avenue about two males who were disturbing customers. An Eden Prairie man was booked into Hennepin County Jail. A resident of the 6100 block of Knox Avenue was the victim of a hit and run, when someone drove into a tree in his front yard. A resident of the 3400 block of Pleasant Avenue forgot to lock her door when she left her home at 11 a.m. and returned to find her laptop missing from an upstairs bedroom along with 10 to 12 containers of miscellaneous…
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
A roundup of burglaries and other property crimes committed in Southwest Minneapolis during the last week.
Forgetful bicycle thief? A sudden stirring of guilt? Either way, on April 1, a thief removed a bike from the unlocked garage of a home on the 5300 block of Irving Avenue but left another bike in its stead. Another bicycle was taken from the open garage of a home on the 5200 block of Girard Avenue, but it wasn't clear from police reports if the two incidents were related. April 2 Hakeem Okolie was booked into Hennepin County jail after a home on the 4300 block of Aldrich Avenue was burgled. When a Tangletown resident returned to her home on the 5300 block of Stevens Avenue she found it was broken into and some of her property was missing. A Lyndale resident was walking along 32nd street when a robber approached her, asking for money. The …
Dave Timmons
11:57 am on Friday, August 10, 2012
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