Area Crime Alert
05/13/2008
Monday, May 13-10:30 PM
An exchange student who lives with a family on Vassar was mugged beside Ervan Chew Park as he was walking home from the bus stop at Richmond and Dunlavy. Three black males, who had been sitting on a bench in the park, threw him to the ground, beat him, and stole his wallet, backpack, and a textbook. The Southampton BOCA Patrol was the first on the scene. The three suspects were last seen running from the park toward Shepherd.
The source of this report is the Southampton Civic Club Inc. and forwarded by Audrey Cook.
Other Crime activity specific to Winlow Place
April 28, Hawthorne@Hazard, 10AM- A white man in his late 30s went through the back gate of this property and tried to get into the house. The back door, is double pane french doors. He got a large pot and broke every outside pane on one door, but luckily the inside panes held. A tenant in the garage apt. observing the activity reported the suspect as being "under the influence or mentally unstable". The tenant told him to stop and he left taking an old pair of tennis shoes .
Supect description-
The suspect looks normal and doesn't appear to be homeless, is white, has blondish hair and fairly non-descript. HPD came out and spoke the tenant, and the officers' names are D.P. Caballero and C.G. Cardenas, from Unit # 1A31P. The Incident # is 062046808-Mi.
April 10, 1700 blk, W. Alabama, 5:45PM- (civic club member/resident and business owner) Two men came to the office pretending to want office info. The receptionists were suspicious and called the police to report. The two men came back after the business closed, pulled a beat up white pick up truck backwards to the front door, and one wandered around to the back yard. The security alarm went off when one of the suspects threw a chunk of concrete through the plate glass door, rushed inside and ripped a large flat screen TV off of the wall, damaging furniture, wallpaper, and the wall. By the time the property owner came to the front they were speeding away with the TV in the bed of the truck. A police report was made.
There is a strong suspicion that the suspects are drug addicts.
Suspect description- A good looking muscular black man with a baseball cap about 5’10” and a thin white man with a scraggly beard and plaid shirt about 5’8” They were nervous and making jerking movements. This comes on the heels of having three bicycles stolen, a laptop computer.
