Crime Reports June 17 – 23

SKULDUGGERY OF THE WEEK: PREGNANT PILFERING

Reported at 1:22 p.m. on June 22: the theft of a wallet from an employee at Escada at Highland Park Village. Two women – one of which was pregnant – entered the store at 6:05 p.m. on June 20. The pregnant woman asked the store associate to grab a dress from the back of the store; as the associate helped the pregnant woman try on the dress in the dressing room, the second woman went behind the counter and stole the associate’s Louis Vuitton wallet ($900). It contained a Chase credit card, $30 in cash, and other documents. The documents, including an insurance card, were found near the intersection of Harvard and Oxford Avenues.

HIGHLAND PARK

19 Wednesday

Taken overnight before 8:50 a.m.: a $151, black and green, 24-inch, 2017 children’s bicycle from the front porch of a home in the 3400 block of Harvard Avenue.

21 Friday

Just before 3:15 p.m., a man, standing approximately 5-foot, 9-inches-tall and weighing 220 pounds, grabbed 11 items from the front of the Tory Burch at Highland Park Village and ran outside, eventually getting into a white Ford F-150 pickup truck, which sped away. The list of stolen bags totaled $5,168 – six Fleming Shoulder Convertible Bags ($498 each), a Rowan Calf Hair Bag ($798), a McGraw Calf Hair Bag ($698), and three pink Fleming Wallets ($228 each). 

UNIVERSITY PARK 

17 Monday

Overnight before 9:01 a.m., repeated strikes with a rock to the front window of Bachendorf’s at The Plaza at Preston Center caused $7,000 worth of damage sometime between June 16 and June 17 at 9:23 a.m. 

At 4:14 p.m., a vandal put fireworks inside the package compartment of a group mailbox at a complex in the 3400 block of Rosedale Avenue but the fuse went out so the explosives did not detonate. 

Reported at 5:58 p.m.: An unlocked black, 2019 Audi A5 parked at the 4200 block of Shenandoah Avenue was broken into between 4 p.m. June 16 and 6 a.m. June 17. A brown wallet worth $100 was stolen. 

Reported at 8:23 p.m.: Between June 14 and 2:30 p.m. June 17, a thief took a surgical head lamp, worth $3,000, from a black, 2006 Lexus L470 at a home in the 3500 block of Centenary Drive.

18 Tuesday

Reported at 10:34 a.m.: An attempted burglary did $600 in damage to a home in the 3500 block of Asbury Avenue

Reported at 6:08 p.m.: Someone took a black, 2016 Vespa Primavera scooter, worth $3,000, between 10:30 p.m. June 17 and 6:08 p.m. June 18 from the driveway of a home in the 3100 block of Greenbrier Drive.

20 Thursday

Reported at 1:50 p.m.: The back window of a blue, 2019 Porsche Cayanne parked at the 4400 block of Lovers Lane, was broken, and several bags were stolen from inside. The bags contained a $100 Equinox handbag, $1,250 worth of clothes, and a $200 Nike product.

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Timothy Glaze

A journalism graduate of the University of North Texas, Tim has called Dallas home his entire life. He has covered news, schools, sports, and politics in Lake Dallas, Denton, Plano, Allen, Little Elm, and Dallas since 2009 for several publications - The Lake Cities Sun, The Plano Star Courier, the Denton Record Chronicle, and now, People Newspapers. He lives in Denton County with his wife and three dogs.

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