Zachary Dickens
We’re starting off with something really scary this week. At 12:19 p.m. on Sept. 30, a resident of the 2800 block of Amherst Street took her recycling to the alley and was startled to find a stranger there. The man said nothing to her, but he pointed a pistol in her direction. The woman fled,…
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Thieves are apparently cruising the alleys of the Park Cities, ready to strike at a moment’s notice whenever an opportunity arises. At 1 p.m. on Sept. 26, a babysitter returned to her employer’s house in the 3300 block of Dartmouth Avenue after taking her employer’s child for a walk. The child needed to go to…
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The evening of Sept. 14 was a busy one for criminal activity on Potomac Avenue in Highland Park and Milton Avenue in University Park. And there was one particular set of incidents that linked those two streets. After 9:30 p.m., a burglar rummaged through two vehicles – a black 2012 Mercedes GL450 and a blue…
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Unless their clients want to shell out even more money, home builders can’t secure their work sites 24 hours a day. Criminals know this, and that’s why a combined $15,000 worth of copper pipes were stolen from two University Park construction sites during the weekend of Sept. 6-7. The crimes happened in the 4000 block…
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Things were relatively quiet in the Park Cities last week. There were no high-speed chases or rashes of pellet-gun vandalism. However, a veritable peloton of stolen bicycles has been pedaled away from their rightful owners: Between 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 2, a thief stole a $350 Trek bicycle from…
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