Editor's Note: The following incidents occurred between May 28 and June 11, and were included in the most recent weekly report, sent out on June 24. Specific details come from individual incident reports maintained by the department.
Unlucky thieves apparently tried to break in to a T-Mobile store at Excelsior and Grand on June 7. At nearly 2 a.m., officers were called to the store by the building's alarm system. Neither door appeared forced, but, officers wrote, it was clear someone had entered through the store's back door. To further confuse the situation, no display items in the store appeared to have been taken with, and none of the locks protecting the store's inventory of phones were tampered with.
The only thing missing, officers discovered after interviewing T-Mobile employees, was a stack of empty cell phone boxes that had been left next to the back door.
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Here are some other recent reports from the St Louis Park Police Department:
May 28 through June 11 – Police are investigating a series of bike thefts from underground garages and another series of jewelry thefts. The police log contained four separate entries on bicycles stolen from these garages, and two entries on jewelry thefts, but no further information was available because they are part of ongoing investigations.
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June 11 — Police were called by a 75-year-old nursing home resident who said two of her gold rings were missing from an unlocked drawer in her dresser. The report notes that the woman shares her room with another resident, and that nursing home staff have around-the-clock access to the room, and thus to the dresser. The woman is a temporary resident in the home, and police advised her to entrust her valuables to her family during her stay.
June 9 — MAACO auto body shop reported a large number of payroll checks were stolen overnight along with over $1,100 in cash and equipment. Thieves also caused $500 in damages to the building's steel door as they forced it open.
June 8 — Unlucky/unobservant thieves struck again overnight, stealing a Saturn with over 160,000 miles on the odometer from an apartment complex near the Bendile-St. Margaret's school. the owner told police that she rarely drove the car, only occasionally moving it from parking space to parking space to appease the building's management.
June 8 – A resident of Rhode Island Avenue reported that he caught a neighbor apparently trying to break into his home around 1 a.m. As he was going to bed, he heard a noise at his living room window; opening the blinds, he saw his neighbor, who asked "what are you doing?" The resident replied "what are you doing?" to which the erstwhile thief replied with his backside, fleeing the scene. The resident found his screen had been damaged, and his living room window was partly ajar.
Between June 3 and June 6 – The Park Nicollet clinic at 4951 Excelsior Boulevard reported the power cable connecting a trailer with the clinic's MRI/CT Scan equipment had been severed and stolen. The thief had shut off power to the trailer before cutting the cable, preventing any damage to the equipment inside.
June 3 – The Evangelical Free Church at 6895 Minnetonka Boulevard reported copper piping had been stolen from their roof-mounted air conditioning unit over the winter. The theft also damaged the unit.
June 1 – A property manager on the 4900 block of 35th Street West reported that nails had been driven into all four tires of her car. She told police that she frequently has to evict people from apartments as part of her job, making many angry.
June 1 – After biting a postman without provocation, a dog on the 3000 block of Florida Ave South has been placed on the Potentially Dangerous Dog list. Police confirmed the dog's rabies shots were current, and the animal has been placed on a 10-day rabies quarantine. The resident said the dog is typically kept inside when the mail is delivered.
May 31 – A cyclist approaching the intersection of Texas Avenue and West 33rd Street hit a stopped police car as it attempted to avoid running a red light. The cyclist suffered cuts, and told the police her brakes had failed as the light changed to red, and she had turned sharply to avoid passing through the intersection.
May 28 – A resident of the 3100 block of Edgewood Avenue reported the theft of four watches and one laptop, worth a total of $2,800 while she had been out of town. Thieves smashed a rear window to gain access, and left many large electronics in the home untouched, but seemed to target the resident's jewelry boxes.