Park Cities Crime Reports April 27-30

SKULDUGGERY OF THE WEEK: GRAND THEFT AUTO

Crooks took a Mercedes GLX SUV from a home in the 3500 block of Drexel Drive overnight before 4:33 a.m. April 29, led officers on a pursuit in the SUV, and wrecked it before fleeing.

HIGHLAND PARK

27 Monday

A thief snagged a MacBook Pro that was plugged in at a home in the 3900 block of Normandy Avenue between 3 and 9 p.m. 

Arrested at 11:10 p.m.: a 28-year-old man for a warrant at the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Auburndale Avenue.

28 Tuesday

A thief took five Louis Vuitton bags, a pair of Louis Vuitton heels, a Judith Leiber jewel butterfly purse, and a textile fabric from Mexico from a home in the 3600 block of Euclid Avenue. The incident was reported at 11:11 a.m.

A crook wrote two fraudulent checks, one for $1,273.29 and another for $10,283.76, from a bank account belonging to a man in the 4200 block of Bordeaux Avenue. The incident was reported at 1:40 p.m. 

Arrested at 9:39 p.m.: a 42-year-old woman accused of driving while intoxicated in the 4700 block of Drexel Drive.

UNIVERSITY PARK 

29 Wednesday

A crook used the personal information of a woman in the 3500 block of Villanova Drive without her consent. The incident was reported April 29.

30 Thursday

A thief broke into a GMC Yukon in the 4400 block of Hanover Street overnight before 12:45 p.m and took the third-row seat.

Officers responded to a report of an assault in the 3400 block of Daniel Avenue around 11 p.m.

Rachel Snyder

Rachel Snyder, former deputy editor at People Newspapers, joined the staff in 2019, returning to her native Dallas-Fort Worth after starting her career at community newspapers in Oklahoma. One of her stories won first place in its category in the Oklahoma Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest in 2018. She’s a fan of puns and community journalism, not necessarily in that order.

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