City Manager's Bi-Weekly Report Volume 2 | Issue 1 | January 2018 | Page 16

POLICE DEPARTMENT

DISTRICT 2 :
Criminal Investigations Division Detectives conducted an investigation into missing items from a business on S . E . Industrial Boulevard that manufacturers large mixing machines . Detectives learned that a recently hired employee was methodically stealing large quantities of expensive metals such as high quality stainless steel and copper and shop tools and selling them to metal recyclers and pawnshops in the area . The employee was charged with four counts of grand theft , 13 counts of petit theft , 16 counts of dealing in stolen property and providing false information to pawnbroker and recycler .
A Hot Spot was initiated in the vicinity of N . W . Canada Street after three incidents of residential burglaries and two incidents of auto burglaries on January 6-8 , 2017 . Latent prints were located in two cases and surveillance video was obtained from a home . A stolen vehicle was later recovered by Lauderhill Police Department .
A Hot Spot was created after seven incidents of auto and residential burglaries in the area of N . W . South Crisona Circle on January 7 and 8 , 2018 . The primary target was anything of value .
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A representative from the PSLPD will be attending an HOA meeting at Bedford at the Lakes on January 24 , 2018 .
DISTRICT 3 :
On January 15 , 2018 around 10 p . m ., a 14 year-old student posted a threat and a photo of a hand gun on a social media site stating “ I dare anyone to come to school Tuesday .” Police officers tracked down the student and his parents . The student said that it was a joke and the gun is in fact a BB gun that was pictured in the post . Police will continue to investigate .
Criminal Investigations Division Detectives tasked with investigating the S . W . Kent Circle and S . W . Antiquera area auto burglary hotspots identified an 18 year-old male as a viable suspect after being a subject of a field interview report by NPB officers . A photo line-up was later conducted and the witness positively identified the male as the subject seen burglarizing vehicles in the area . The suspect confessed to both incidents in the S . W . Antiquera Hotspot during post arrest interviews . He was charged with two counts of burglary to unoccupied conveyance and two counts petit theft .