Crime & Safety
Police Blotter: Electronics Stolen, Garage Rummaged Through in Home Break-Ins
While one Dearborn home had nothing stolen from it, two others had electronics taken in home break-ins during the past week.
Three home break-ins were reported during the past week.
A home on the 2600 block of Chestnut was broken into some time during noon March 22 and 3:50 p.m. March 24.
The homeowner told Dearborn police that it had been vacant for several months prior, but that on Mach 22, his sister began to move into the house.
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When the man returned to the house the afternoon of March 24, he saw that the south entry door had been kicked in and that a flat-screen TV and XBOX 360 belonging to his sister, as well as his iPad car mount, were missing. All of the items had been in the living room; the rest of the home was empty.
Police were unable to make contact with any possible witnesses in neighboring homes.
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A second home break-in was reported March 23 on the 4600 block of Palmer. The owner of the home told police that she had left at 6:20 p.m. and when she returned, she noticed that a window in one of the bedrooms was open. The woman thought that her 3-year-old daughter had opened it, until she discovered that her laptop was missing from one of the other bedrooms in the house.
Both doors into the house were locked.
The third home break-in was also reported March 23, just after 10 p.m. The homeowner and her son came home and while she entered the house, her son went to the attached garage. Inside, he saw an unknown black male, approximately 35 years old, wearing a black knit hat and black clothing, looking through boxes in their garage.
The boy went back into the house and told his mom, who called the police. He did not see which way the man went.
The mother said she thinks she left the garage door unlocked when they left, but nothing appeared to be damaged or stolen.
Car Thefts
A resident of the apartment complex on Liberty Court in southeast Dearborn reported his car as stolen on March 24.
The man said that his Ford Five Hundred was parked in the lot of his complex at 2:30 a.m. March 23. When he returned to the lot at 6:30 p.m. March 24, his car was gone, despite the fact that he said the vehicle is equipped with an alarm and had a club on the steering wheel.
A Dearborn resident left his Chrysler Sebring running with the keys inside while parked on Blesser Street facing toward Miller Road just after 9 a.m. March 24. When he stepped away from the car, he reported, it was stolen by an unknown person.
The man had just bought the car the day before.
