For the last time, folks, please stop leaving valuable items in your motor vehicles. Tell your neighbors, e-mail your friends, and remind any visiting relatives to remove GPS systems, satellite radios, purses, wallets, laptops, cell phones, Ipods, and their chargers. Oh, and any loose change that’s visible on your car’s console.
A locked and alarmed vehicle is not burglar-proof. Take away the temptation and you will greatly lessen the chances of your becoming a victim of this crime. Also report suspicious activity and also report acts of property crime if you should become a victim. If it’s not reported, then it didn’t happen! In order to receive a prompt response to acts vandalism or larceny from a vehicle, these incidents must be reported. Thanks.
September 2, 1:40 a.m.
Being a life-long city boy and city cop, I don’t ever remember hearing a case such as this one. Kinda sounds like a case Andy and Barney would have dealt with in Mayberry. But not in Dorchester, U.S.A. Well, because of the recent uptick in car breaks in the Savin Hill area, the late night rapid response unit and the plain clothes anti-crime car have been paying a little more attention to that area and as a result, the uniformed rapid response officers put the peek on a couple of varmints who were trespassing where they ought not a’been trespassing. The officers observed a black Lexus pull up to a home on Auckland Street and the two occupants hurriedly exit the car, hop a fence and run to the rear of the property. Then, just as quickly, the two jackrabbits returned to the car carrying armfuls of unknown items. The vehicle was stopped and the men questioned as to their suspicious nocturnal behavior. Here are some of their responses:
“I don’t have a license or wallet on me.†“It’s a friend’s car, I don’t know where the registration could be,†(Hey, the glove compartment, Einstein). “We’re just looking for a friend’s house†(behind the property!) “We don’t know his name or the exact address†(you’re kiddin’, right?).
It was about this time that the officers observed several large chili pepper plants and squash type vegetables in the vehicle. (Dag burn it, we got ourselves a couple of crop thieves here.) The passenger explained: “I got these from my mother’s home.†(He couldn’t remember that address either – seriously.) A check of the backyard showed areas that had recently been dug up. The homeowners stated that indeed they were growing such produce and had been the victim of similar larcenies in the past. The two clueless vegetarians were arrested and charged with trespassing, larceny over $250, possessing burglarious tools, and malicious destruction of personal property. Great, now even the plants aren’t safe.
August 25, 9:54 p.m.
Officers in the Akolf plain-clothes car pulled over a 22-year-old Lynn woman, who I doubt was her high school valedictorian, on Stoughton Street for a traffic infraction. When asked to produce her license she stated, â€I don’t have my license.†Then she opened her purse, in plain view of the officers, to look for some form of identification, and lo and behold if 18 bags of crack cocaine weren’t lying on top. There was also marijuana and a tiny little scale in her purse. She was charged with distribution of Class ‘B’ substance – school zone among others.
September 11, 6:06 p.m.
A Carruth Street woman came home to find a 62-year-old Dorchester man, whom she had never seen in her life, in a dead sleep on her living room couch. After asking her downstairs neighbor if he knew Rip Van Knucklehead, he said no, and 911 was soon called. The officers were finally able to wake up the drunken lout, but he was in an ornery mood. First he yelled at the apartment’s owner, calling her a female dog. Then he turned his animosity toward the men in blue, questioning their manliness and their mothers’ virtuousness. He was soon placed in cuffs and arrested for breaking and entering – daytime.
Time to practice swinging
Now I’ve got to start practicing my rusty golf swing and the correct pronunciation of the word “Fore.†Tomorrow, we will be holding the 2d annual Kaitlyn Keaney Golf Tournament at Franklin Park’s Devine Golf Course. All the proceeds will benefit a charity set up in memory of my precious niece, Office Kate Keaney. Since the fund’s inception in October of 2008, we have been able to give out $13,000 in college scholarships to multiple high school seniors from the city of Boston with aspirations for a career in law enforcement as well as $2,500 in contributions to various charities.
