Crime information is from both LASD-CV Sheriff’s Station and Glendale Police Dept.
Sept. 18
4400 Ocean View Boulevard in Montrose, a resident locked his vehicle’s door and went into his home. When he returned the next morning he found the driver’s side door was ajar, the interior of the vehicle ransacked and items were stolen.
The car burglary occurred overnight.
700 Forest Green Lane in La Cañada Flintridge, deputies responded to a call regarding a residential alarm. Deputies found a bathroom window had been shattered and the window screen was pushed in and lying on the floor. There was damage found to a previously locked closet door and the interior had been ransacked. Upon further investigation several rooms had been ransacked. The resident returned to the home and found that several items had been stolen.
The residential burglary alarm was activated at 9:37 p.m.
2100 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, a man reported that as he and others were waiting in their vehicles in a drive-thru a driver in a grey Lexus GS 400, described as a white male in his 40s with a skinny build wearing a grey shirt, khaki shorts, flip-flop sandals, sunglasses and a grey fedora hat, pulled his vehicle in front of the man’s car. The man honked his vehicle’s horn and told the driver he was cutting in front of not only his vehicle but several others behind him. The driver [suspect] opened the driver’s side door of his vehicle and had an aluminum baseball bat across his lap and yelled at the man. He then put the bat into his vehicle and approached the man’s car. He then stood close to the man’s driver’s door and beat on his chest and gestured for the man to come out of the car so they could fight. The man rolled his window up as the suspect continued to yell and moved aggressively closer to the man’s car. He then went back to his vehicle, got his food and drove away.
The investigation of a criminal threat continues to be under investigation. The incident occurred at 8 p.m.
Sept. 16
4800 block of Del Monte Road in La Cañada, a resident reported that she had been notified via email by her company’s payroll manager that the California Employment Development Department [EDD] requested additional information regarding her employment status. The email addressed an unemployment claim that had been filed in her name on Aug. 16. She had not filed an unemployment claim. She reported the filing as fraud. Then on Sept. 16 she received a call from someone she could not identify. The recorded voice stated she had a warrant out for her arrest, was being sued and needed to contact law enforcement to clear the warrant. There was no warrant in her name and this was part of a scam.
The call came in at 10:41 a.m.
Sept. 1
200 N. Euclid Avenue in Pasadena, a man reported that he had been contacted by the Human Resource Dept. of his company and told a claim had been filed with the Employment Development Department [EDD] in his name. He is currently employed and did not file an EDD claim. He did not know who might have filed the fraudulent claim. He reported it to law enforcement and to the EDD.
The report was made at 8:30 a.m.
July 17
5700 block of Alder Ridge Drive in La Cañada Flintridge, a package that was delivered to a home was stolen between July 17 and Aug. 26.