1 No free rides. A man living in the 9600 block of Cherryvale Drive, Highlands Ranch, took his trash out at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 11 and found two men sitting along the side of his house. The men had tampered with a window well grate and told him they needed a ride home. He told them to leave and that he had a gun. They ran away.
2 Surprise, creep! A woman living in the 900 block of Graland Place, Highlands Ranch, saw a teenage boy peek in her window just before 3 p.m. Oct. 9. He then came in her backyard and tried to open the screen on her sliding glass doors. She threw open the door’s curtains and he fled.
3 Locker raid rocks complex. A couple living in a complex in the 10100 block of Park Meadows Drive, Douglas County, said their external storage unit was broken into and sacked Oct. 14. Officers found four other lockers in the storage room had also been pried open with some sort of tool.
4 Truck tires nailed. A woman drove her truck for two days with nails in the front tires that appeared to have been driven into them intentionally. The woman, who lives in the 6000 block of Blue Ridge Drive, Highlands Ranch, said she took the truck to be detailed Oct. 8, then drove it home. She drove to work Oct. 9 and a coworker spotted the nails, driven into the sidewalls of each tire.
5 Grab some bench. An employee at Eldorado Elementary School,1305 W. Timbervale Trail, Highlands Ranch, discovered Oct. 15 that someone had unbolted the top piece of a school bench from its legs and stolen it. He estimated the loss at $500.
