Despite the awful news about the robbery on LaVista, April was a fairly routine month for us crime wise for the most part. There were only 5 home break-ins throughout the area. We a couple of car break-ins that were two-fers. Two different cars were broken into near each other on the same night. These pairs occurred just 4 days apart, so possibly the same bad guy. Again this month, in several of these car break-ins, the doors had been left unlocked Continue reading “April 2012 Crime Report”

Our unusual absence of crime last month was short lived. Our numbers for March were mostly back to normal with a little St. Pat’s bump. Car break-ins were up this month, mostly in the area north of McCommas and south of Belmont. These seemd to cluster around the Turtle Dove apartments and the area behind the Billiard Bar. We did have several very serious incidents this month which I detail below.   Continue reading “March 2012 Crime Report”

Last year, February was a good month for us, it was the lowest number of crime incidents in years with 35 incidents. This year, February was even better to us, with only 20 incidents. (See below) That’s with no ice storms and an extra day thrown in for leap year. That’s a record shattering great month for our residents, with only 7 total incidents across our 2500+ households. In fact it took me a little longer to get this report out this month, because I was certain there was a mistake in the data. But after triple checking everything, we were right on. According to Officer Keith, this was unique to our LGNA neighborhood. He tells me the number of crime incidents were actually slightly up in adjacent neighborhoods. Next month is yet to be seen, but let’s keep looking out for each other and keep this trend going!  Continue reading “February 2012 Crime Reports”

After a string of several below average crime months, we popped back up to the typical level this month. Some of this came from a string of assaults around Kinki’s and NSL, five this month alone. On violent crime, two were family violence situations, but the other two were a robbery in the parking lot of the Turtle Dove apartments and a car-jacking in the Billiard Bar parking lot. (See story below)  We’re also seeing a slow increase in the number of auto thefts. One was stolen right out of a driveway on Ellsworth this month. Over the couple of years, we had slowed to a small trickle with many months having no auto thefts at all. But lately, we’ve been seeing them more consistently. This is not been a dramatic increase, but something to keep our eyes on. Please keep reporting suspicious vehicles and suspicious persons to 911. Continue reading “January 2012 Crime Report”

The crime reports for December are below. For the first time in a very long while, I simply don’t have any significant news to share. Once again, we had a very good month, with only 19 total incidents in the residential part of the neighborhood. Most significantly, there was only 1 burglary in the entire LGNA area in December and that one was of a garage, not the house itself. We did have 7 car-break-ins in the neighborhood, which is about typical. I’m hoping we can do better on this in the coming year. Continue reading “December 2011 Crime Report”