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Sheriff's Report
Petty Theft--Oct. 6, 2:25 p.m. on Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road. An unknown suspect entered a café, took two tip jars that contained about $60 cash and left. An employee believes he may have been a 6-foot-2, 145-pound, 17-year-old white male with dark brown hair and brown eyes who was wearing a white T-shirt, and who had ordered a tall frappuccino.
Auto Burglary--Oct. 5, 10:05 a.m. on Titus Avenue. A San Jose resident parked her van along the street and stayed nearby for her son's soccer game. An unknown suspect smashed a hole into her back passenger side window, opened the door and took a purse from the middle bench-style seat. The purse and its contents were worth $420.
Petty Theft--Oct. 4, 6:45 p.m. on Cox Avenue. At about 4:30 p.m., the victim entered a gym, locked his wallet and other belongings in a locker and secured them with his combination padlock. When he returned, he saw the lock was missing. His gym bag and belongings had been searched, and his $75 wallet had been stolen. He told the staff, who told the sheriff's office. No one saw or heard any suspects.
Grand Theft--Oct. 4, 3:45 p.m. on Ten Acres Court. A couple decided to have a cyclone fence set up around their property. The suspect agreed to do it for $4,700. The victims paid him $3,050 and planned to pay the rest when he had finished. He returned to the victims' property Oct. 4 and, without discussion, ripped out the fence and took it. The suspect also damaged and removed several fence posts.
Theft of Checks--Oct. 3, 9:30 p.m. on Columbine Court. Someone stole a checkbook from the victim's desk in his bedroom. The only people he can remember being in his home are workers who had installed new windows the week of Sept. 24. The victim called his bank and told bank personnel about the stolen checks. So far, none of them have cleared.
Residential Burglary--Oct. 3, 5:20 p.m. on Carniel Lane. That afternoon, when the victim left his house for about two hours, someone entered through the dining room and ransacked the place. The guilty party took silver steak knives worth $300, video equipment and jewelry/metals. The victim had left the sliding glass door unlocked.
Found Bone--Oct. 3, 3 p.m. on Saratoga Hills Road. The reporting party found a bone on the deck behind his house and brought the bone to the substation. The sheriff's office took the bone to the Santa Clara County Coroner's Office to determine if it was human or animal.
Grand Theft--Oct. 3, 11 a.m. on Bella Vina. The unknown suspect(s) stole a $25,000 three-karat yellow gold wedding ring and a $40 bracelet from a kitchen. The victim thinks one of the house cleaners stole the jewelry because they were the only ones in the home.
Forgery, Fictitious Check--Oct. 2, 7:41 p.m. on Cox Avenue. The sheriff's office dispatched an officer on a report of a customer trying to pass a fraudulent check. When the officer arrived at the store four minutes later, a clerk pointed out a woman who was writing a check. The woman said she'd been in the store earlier that day, had written a check and had left with cash and merchandise. When bank employees were contacted, they said there was no such account. The officer detained the suspect.
Grand Theft--Oct. 2, 4 p.m. on Winter Lane. The victim reported his wife's $6,000 pink pearl necklace missing. He suspects a healthcare worker, who was working at the home until August 2001.
Missing Adult--Oct. 2, 10:30 a.m. on Reid Lane. The victim, who teaches at a university, went jogging at Saratoga High School with a friend. The victim's wife didn't see him afterward, so she called the sheriff's office. University staff members didn't know if he taught on Mondays. Also, someone who knew him told the sheriff's office that the victim usually "slept it off" at hotels after drinking heavily. At 2:15 p.m., the victim contacted the officer. The victim said he had gone to a meeting in San Francisco and that he had told his wife. His wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, didn't remember.
Petty Theft (Mail)--Oct. 1, 4:45 p.m. on Sobey Road. A postal worker called the victim and said his mail had been found in a mailbox in Los Gatos. When the victim retrieved his mail from the postal worker, he saw it had been opened, and that some envelopes were empty. He planned to call his credit card companies and bank to make sure that no unusual activity had been made. The postal worker told the victim that the Postal Inspector would log the theft into their database. There are no suspects.
Forgery, Petty Theft--Oct. 1, 3 p.m. on Mellon Drive. Between Sept. 2 at 1 p.m. and Sept. 12 at 1 p.m., the suspect took the victim's check and cashed it for $200 by forging her name. The victim doesn't know how the suspect took the check. She learned it had been forged while she was entering her checks into Quicken. After she called her bank, it conducted an investigation and credited $200 to her account. The suspect is at large.
Petty Theft--Oct. 5, 8:20 a.m. on Ronnie Way. An unknown suspect stole a $150 American flag from the victim's front porch.
Child Abuse--Oct. 8, 10:01 a.m. A school administrator called the police about a student at the school who had excessive bruises on the back. The father of the child was the main suspect. A report was taken. The next day, police were called back to the school because a new bruise was discovered on the student.
Disturbance--Oct. 9, 4:36 p.m. On W. Parr Avenue, a woman was throwing her husband's clothes out of the house, and there was yelling in the background. The neighbors did not know what was going on and if it was a physical fight, but they said that there were small children in the house. The husband allegedly was doing drugs in the house with some of his friends. Both the husband and wife were arrested for battery. Their infants stayed with a roommate until their grandmother could pick them up.
Vandalism--Oct. 10, 5:59 p.m. A Massol Avenue resident said that the neighbor who lived below him was shredding the resident's American flag, which had been hanging outside his apartment. The flag, he said, held sentimental value because it had been on his father's casket. Police left a message on the neighbor's answering machine.
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