Editor’s note: All suspects are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and values are estimated for stolen/damaged items. These are brief summaries of detailed SCSO reports.
Dec. 2
Shetland Trail (other larceny/access device)
An Arlington woman reported on Dec. 2 that someone used her credit card information to buy a computer.
She last used her card at Kroger (11635 U.S. 70) at 2:05 p.m. Nov. 24. Later that day, someone bought a $414.88 computer from Intek Computer. The victim called the company, who gave the name of the suspect who used her credit card information. The company reimbursed her for the purchase, and Regions Bank waived the overdraft fees.
The sheriff’s report noted that, per dispatch, that Kroger location has a history of things of this nature occurring.
Milton Wilson Boulevard (felony vandalism)
Someone damaged a Mack dump truck at a work area at Milton Wilson Boulevard and Forrest Street, a superintendent for Stabilization Inc. reported on Dec. 2.
The superintendent said they ended work around 5 p.m. Nov. 24, leaving several vehicles at an unfinished residential development. When he returned, he found that someone had hammered the radiator and shattered headlights on a blue dump truck. He estimated damages at $5,000.
Dec. 4
Cozy Willow Way (theft from motor vehicle)
A woman yelled and scared away an intruder she discovered by her mid-size SUV before dawn on Dec. 4.
She walked out of her home at 2:45 a.m. to get makeup from the vehicle, and she saw a black male of medium build and wearing a large overcoat standing on the driver’s side of the SUV.
She yelled, “Get out of here or I’m calling the cops!” Before he fled, the suspect said, “I’m leaving, but you still going to call the cops anyway.” He ran northbound on Cozy Willow Way, cutting through neighboring yards. The dome light of her 2006 black Hyundai Santa Fe was on, and she saw that her children’s toy bag had been unzipped with no items taken.
The responding officer searched the area for the suspect but didn’t find him. The incident happened on the 5500 block of Cozy Willow Way.
Dec. 5
Magnolia Bend Drive (theft from motor vehicle)
A gun owner on the 12400 block of Magnolia Bend Drive reported Dec. 5 that someone stole two pistols from a truck he frequently leaves unlocked.
He last saw the weapons, a Glock 26 9mm and a Ruger LCP .380-caliber, around 3 p.m. on Nov. 29. He didn’t notice anything wrong with his Jeep Rubicon until he checked for his pistols around 4 p.m. Dec. 4.
He could not immediately provide the serial number for the Ruger, although he had it for the Glock.
Dec. 7
U.S. 70 (business burglary)
Officers responding to a burglary alarm just after 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 found the glass side entry door shattered at the Cazadores Mexican Grill (11695 U.S. 70, Suite 110).
They cleared the scene, found the cash register on the floor and noticed that someone had tampered with the surrounding area. Two crime scene techs lifted prints from the countertop near where the register normally sits.
The business had surveillance cameras on the front and back doors of the business.
The owner said some cash was missing from the register but didn’t know the exact amount at the time of the report.
Dec. 8
Wolf Pack Drive (simple assault/domestic violence)
A couple scuffled over letting the wife’s car get repossessed early on Dec. 8 on the 5600 block of Wolf Pack Drive.
The wife wanted her 2012 black Buick Lacross to be repossessed because the couple are divorcing.
She said her husband interfered when the repo man showed up and she tried to enter the garage. As she tried to open the inside garage door, her husband pushed her away from the door and her right leg was injured, she said.
She reported that her husband grabbed the keys, jumped into the vehicle and left in it to avoid the repossession.
She had no visible injuries and refused medical attention.
The husband was not on scene before the officer’s arrival, and the victim said she doesn’t want to prosecute.
Dec. 9
Maple Landing Drive (stolen property)
An Arlington man reported on Dec. 9 that he knew where his cousin’s stolen boat was. The boat was taken earlier that day in Fayette County.
The Arlington man said he saw two white male juveniles load the boat onto a trailer and tow it to an address on the 5300 block of Maple Landing Drive. The trailer and boat were attached to a Chevy Tahoe in the suspects’ driveway when officers arrived. The victim arrived and identified his boat as one his father gave him, and a Shelby County dispatcher confirmed his father as the registered owner.
Parents of both suspects signed an acknowledgement of their sons’ Miranda rights. Both suspects confessed to the theft of the boat, a Yeti cooler and a Campbell Hausfeld air compressor. Each youth received a juvenile summons for theft of property.
Dec. 11
Cranston Drive (other theft/non-specific)
A resident on the 11900 block of Cranston Drive reported on Dec. 11 that someone stole a package containing a baseball mitt from her front porch. She was able to pinpoint the time to between noon and 1 p.m. Dec. 8 because she was tracking the USPS delivery.
The victim said a neighbor has a working surveillance camera pointed toward her home and may have footage of the suspect.
Hidden Meadows (misdemeanor drugs/narcotics violation)
A woman blamed her estranged husband for the marijuana and related items she found at home and reported on Dec. 11.
She was cleaning her home when she found a glass marijuana pipe in the bedroom. She also found marijuana cookies and marijuana butter in two plastic containers in her freezer. She said the items must belong to her husband, who doesn’t live there anymore and who wasn’t present when the responding officer arrived.
The butter tested positive as containing the active ingredient in marijuana, and it weighed 6.1 grams. The cookies also tested positive and weighed 107.4 grams.
Dec. 13
William Hill (drug equipment violation)
An officer saw drug-related items in plain sight when he responded to a Dec. 13 report of a suspicious vehicle on the 6200 block of William Hill.
The officer arrived around 3 a.m. and found the vehicle, a gold Chevrolet Impala, and made contact with a male suspect. The officer saw a silver metal cylinder used for cutting marijuana in plain view in the back storage pocket of the passenger seat. A search yielded a black backpack that contained two digital scales and a small electronic pipe (solopipe.com) with burned residue at one end and a side label that said, “Party Like a Rock Star Beale Street.”
The officer confiscated the items and gave the suspect a juvenile summons for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Dec. 14
Hickory Run Place (other larceny/commercial construction)
With a tip from a school bus driver, a man captured the license plate information for two suspects stealing a neighbor’s construction supplies on the 4200 block of Hickory Run Place.
The man said his children were loading onto the school bus the morning of Dec. 14 when the driver mentioned two males were taking items from outside a nearby home owned by a friend. When the man questioned one suspect, the suspect said, “The contractor asked us to pick up some supplies.”
That suspect, a white male, had tattoos of Vs on both sides of his cheeks under his eyes. He jumped into a camo-colored truck with the other suspect, and they fled with about six packages of shingles ($210) in the truck bed. The man followed them southbound on Airline Road to U.S. 64, captured the Tennessee license plate information and stopped pursuit because the suspects were driving erratically. They kept going westbound on U.S. 64.
The responding officer traced the tag information back to a Memphis resident on the 4700 block of Chumbler Drive.
Dec. 15
Brian Ridge Road (non-residential burglary)
A man on the 5000 block of Brian Ridge Drive reported Dec. 15 that someone had stolen his Kodiak four-wheeler from the barn behind his home.
He couldn’t pinpoint a date but said his neighbors had several recreational vehicles stolen within the past month and isn’t sure if his was taken around the same time. His best estimate was sometime in the past three months.
He said he hasn’t been in his barn in a while and hasn’t noticed any tire marks or unusual sights in the area. Whoever took the four-wheeler closed the barn and left it looking as it normally does from the outside.
The vehicle has a distinctive broken winch on the front brush guard wrapped up with cables.
The responding officer noted that there is no crime scene to process because of the time frame and site contamination.
Dec. 17
Douglass Road (simple assault/domestic violence)
A mother reported that her daughter assaulted her the morning of Dec. 17.
The mother said the daughter refused to put on a jacket before heading to school. Her father took one of her toys when she wouldn’t listen to him. The mother grabbed the girl around the waist when she lunged for the toy, and the girl accidentally hit the mother with her elbows.
The daughter then walked out the back door, so the mother walked out the front door, and they met on the side of the house. The mother said she tried to keep her daughter from leaving the property, but the girl pushed her. The mother fell and hit her head on the trashcans. The daughter left the scene.
The responding officer saw no signs of injury, and all parties refused medical assistance.
Officers located the girl at Walker and Quintard streets. She was transported and released to Juvenile Court.
Dec. 19
Interstate 40 (theft from motor vehicle)
A man reported Dec. 19 that someone stole two tires after he left his car overnight on I-40 because of vehicle problems.
He said his 2002 gold Honda Civic started having problems around 5:45 p.m. Dec. 18 as he was entering Interstate 40 westbound from Paul Barrett Parkway. So he left it on the side of the interstate. He returned around 9:30 p.m. Dec. 19 to find that the passenger side rear door’s window was shattered and the driver’s side rear tire was missing, along with the spare that was in the trunk.
He said nothing else was missing, and he had no suspect information.
Dec. 20
Mahogany Drive (identity theft)
Someone ran up nearly $500 on a fraudulently opened credit card for a lingerie company, a victim reported on Dec. 20.
The woman, a resident on the 11600 block of Mahogany Drive, opened a $478.32 bill that day from Victoria’s Secret, but she has never opened an account there.
She contacted the company, cancelled the card and closed the account.
The purchased items included moisturizer body care, specialty body care, Juice fragrance, robe, lingerie and lip color. The victim said she has not received any such items.
She also told the responding officers that the account used only the name she goes by, not her full legal name. The bill showed the transaction was on Dec. 8 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Dec. 21
Elderton Drive (residential burglary)
A site supervisor for a home on the 12500 block of Elderton Drive reported nearly $3,000 in damages to the property on Dec. 21.
Workers left the site around 5 p.m. Dec. 19. They returned around 8 a.m. Dec. 21 and found the home damaged, including a broken kitchen window ($200), holes in two upstairs bedrooms’ walls ($140), and paint splashed on the floors and walls of the family room ($2,500).
The responding officer observed the damage and also spotted two large rocks on the kitchen floor. Processing the area did not yield any latent fingerprints.
Dec. 23
Ewing Boulevard (misdemeanor vandalism)
A man on the 6100 block of Ewing Boulevard reported on Dec. 23 that someone had cut wires on two different strands of his Christmas decorations. He said he’s had similar unreported incidents in past Christmas seasons.
He couldn’t provide any suspect information or direction of travel. The suspect left before officers arrived.
The responding officers verified the damage and also noticed that the victim’s irrigation wires were loose. The man couldn’t verify if the irrigation system was damaged naturally because of seasonal weather changes or via vandalism.
