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Crime Warning: Thieves target your holiday trash!

WHAT: Tempting Trash
WHERE: Montrose Area

A warning from the Constable’s office:

From trash bins stuffed with cardboard boxes, to gift wrapping paper, driving around you’ll see the tell-tale signs that Christmas was here. As you can see, it announces what Santa has left at this house to entice a theft to break in. We recommend breaking the boxes down and putting them into trash containers so no one knows what santa has delivered. Also, many residents are visiting out of town and not at home the week after Christmas. Leaving trash like this out in addition to no lights left on, is another invitation for crooks to take advantage of the season.

Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday!!!

Constable Alan Rosen

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December 2017 Newsletter

The holiday season is in full swing and we know many of you will be heading out of town. With that in mind, we want to encourage everyone to take advantage of the Vacation Watch Program. Leave your residence knowing that our Deputies will be looking out for you!

An important message from Constable Rosen:

Please report all criminal incidents to the constable, no matter how trivial! The Constable utilizes all reports to better tailor their services for our neighborhood and the surrounding community. By all means share incidents with your neighbors and on Nextdoor, but please be sure and report everything to the Constable as well.

General Update: HPD reported crimes for November were incredibly low with only 2 incidents (compared to 15 last November) – one Theft from Vehicle and one Robbery in the 1800 block of Fairview. This is a huge success for our Patrol Program! Click on the map for more detailed information.

Constable Activity Report – November:

Below is a run down of last month’s Activity Report from the Constable Patrol. Each time the deputy on patrol is called out or observes some activity of interest, he/she documents the call and the report is compiled at the end of the month. It’s a nice way to see what our deputies are up to!

Alarm Local – 1
Abandoned Vehicle – 1
Aggressive Animal – 3
Burglary/Motor Vehicle – 0
Business Check – 0
Contract Check – 130
Criminal Mischief – 1
Discharge of Firearm – 0
Disturbance/ Loud Noise – 2
Fraudulent Use ID – 1
Information Call – 0
Meet the Citizen – 206
Meet the Officer – 0
Park Check – 16
Property Found/Lost – 0
Solicitors – 0
Special Assign – 0
Suspicious Person – 8
Suspicious Vehicle – 2
Theft – 0
Traffic Hazard – 0
Traffic Stop – 15
Vacation Watch – 32
Vehicle Recovery – 1

*Contract Check refers to an observation and/or inquiry at a specific location (think of it as a drive by and safety check of your home). Meet the Citizen means precisely that. One of our patrolling deputies had the chance to engage with a neighbor!

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September 2017 Newsletter

We hope you and your family & friends were safe and dry during this devastating experience. Our neighborhoods were incredibly lucky and suffered minimal damage from Harvey. Once the rains let up, many of us took the opportunity to get out, walk the streets, chat with neighbors and even enjoy a meal at some of our local restaurants. It was great to see friendly faces and share experiences with neighbors and friends. It seems we all know someone who is in desperate need after the flooding and because of our good fortune, many of us had the time and means to help out. With so many ways to volunteer, we hope you have the opportunity to do your part for the communities who have suffered so much.

Pedestrians & School Traffic
HISD and most of the local schools will start back this coming Monday, September 11th. Please be on the lookout for added pedestrians heading to or returning home from school. Also, do your part to ensure safety and peace in our community by remaining patient with the increase in traffic that inevitably clogs our neighborhoods.

General Update: Reported crimes for August were low. Of the 10 reported, there were 6 thefts from vehicles, 3 thefts, and 1 breaking and entering.

Constable Activity Report – August:
Below is a run down of last month’s Activity Report from the Constable Patrol. Each time the deputy on patrol is called out or observes some activity of interest, he/she documents the call and the report is compiled at the end of the month. It’s a nice way to see what our deputies are up to!

Alarm Local – 6
Abandoned Vehicle – 1
Aggressive Animal – 0
Burglary/Habitation – 1
Burglary/Motor Vehicle – 0
Business Check – 3
Contract Check – 139
Criminal Mischief – 0
Discharge of Firearm – 0
Disturbance/ Loud Noise – 2
High Water Rescue – 2
Information Call – 2
Meet the Citizen – 68
Meet the Officer – 4
Neighborhood Check – 0
Park Check – 23
Property Found/Lost – 1
Solicitors – 3
Special Assign – 0
Suspicious Person – 12
Suspicious Vehicle – 4
Theft – 2
Traffic Hazard – 3
Traffic Stop – 25
Vacation Watch – 72
Welfare Check – 1

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Crime Alert – Rim & Tire Thefts

What: Rim & Tire Theft
Where: Montrose Area
The Constable has reported some issues with the theft of rims and tires and wanted to advise people with expensive rims or tires that locking lug nuts are available.

Per the Constable: Here is one example of Lug Nut Wheel Locks. You can pay as much as you want for them, high or low. What you do is remove one of your regular lugs on each tire and replace it with this special lug. As you can see it has a design in the center that requires a special “key” to put it on and to take it off. On regular lug nuts, they are universal so any lug wrench will remove many different size nuts. This is a deterrent. These can be cut off but that takes a lot of time that a crook does not want to spend. You want them to see the special lug and move on to someone else. We have three trucks in our drive considering I have boys. All three trucks have locking lugs as deterrent. Hope this helps. They are available at any parts store.

Be safe,

Constable Alan Rosen

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Crime Alert – Porch Thief Caught in Action!

WHAT:  Stolen Packages from Front Porch

WHERE:  Mandell Place

A thief was caught on video stealing a package from a neighbor’s front porch in Mandell Place. An unidentified male can be clearly seen walking very casually onto the front porch where 2 packages had been delivered. He chooses the smaller one and walks away. This crime occurred in the middle of the day, around 4:20 p.m., while the resident was not home. Close up shots of the thief were delivered to the Constable the next day. The Captain of the Patrol Division tells us it has been circulated to all Montrose area deputies. If anyone else has similar surveillance video of this crime or any others, please forward to info@mwpatrol.org and we will make sure the Constable gets a copy.

Please keep your eyes open and don’t hesitate to report any suspicious activity.  It’s our best defense against this type of crime!