1 Stealing from teacher. A teacher at Elkhart Elementary School at 1020 N. Eagle St. called police to the school March 17 because someone smashed her car’s passenger side window and stole her purse. The victim said she accidentally left it in the car, along with a few dollars and some cancelled credit cards, which were all taken. Video surveillance showed an unidentified man drive up next to her parked car and then get out and break the window. There are no suspects.
2 Alarm foils robbery. An employee of Yesenia’s Tires and Wheels at 555 N. Havana St. called police after he watched the overnight security footage of the store and saw that four men had attempted to rob the business March 17. One man climbed in through a broken window and opened the door for the other men. After about a minute of the group mulling around inside, a security alarm went off and they all ran out the back door without taking anything from the store.
3 Wake up call. A man who lives in the 17900 block of East Loyola Drive woke up to a loud pounding noise outside his home March 14. When he looked out the window, he saw another man sliding across the hood of his car. The suspect took off in a red Mustang when the victim came outside. His hood was dented and scratched.
4 Sliced screens. Police were called to a woman’s home in the 1100 block of South Lewiston Street because she noticed that someone cut her back window screens and threw them on the ground March 14. She didn’t know when it happened, but the house wasn’t entered.
