Friendship Goes Bad in Secret Apartment: Blotter

Theft

• A 52-year-old Eden Prairie man said someone stole a campaign sign asking people to vote against the marriage amendment sometime between 10 p.m. Oct. 23 and 2 p.m. Oct. 24.
• A 52-year-old Eden Prairie man told police he heard his car alarm going off at 12:45 a.m. Oct. 24 in the 7000 block of Ontario Boulevard. He went out to check the car and found that someone stole a $25 Golfsmith gift card, $79 in Scheels store credit and a $75 cash card for the Eden Prairie mall. His neighbor’s vehicle was hit in the summer and six weeks ago someone smashed a window on another vehicle and tried to take an in-dash radio.
• A 21-year-old Chanhassen woman said her ex-boyfriend took her silver MacBook Pro 15, worth $2,000, from her vehicle. She’d brought it to work at the Olympic Hills Golf Club and left it in the vehicle. She later found out he'd pawned it. Investigators later discovered he pawned it at Uptown Pawn in Minneapolis for $300. The case is still under investigation.
• Sometime between 5:30 p.m. Oct. 19 and 5 a.m. Oct. 22, someone cut six locks off five pickup trucks owned by Berry Coffee. Nothing was taken, and most of the doors hadn’t even been opened.
• A 56-year-old Chaska man, who’s the landlord of a property in the 12000 block of Pioneer Trail, reported that he found the cover off a boat he stored on the property. His fishing rods and tackle were gone. He thought a resident he evicted may have taken it. The case is under investigation.
• A couple living in the 7000 block of Bittersweet Drive told police their vehicles were burglarized sometime between 11 p.m. Oct. 19 and 7 a.m. Oct. 20. Missing from a Land Rover parked in the driveway were a pair of Leupold binoculars, a bag with eight duck calls and shotgun shells, a bag with an iPod Nano and Bose ear buds and another bag with shotgun shells, ear muffs and shooting glasses. The items were worth $1,749 total. The other vehicle was missing a North Face ski jacket with fur-lined hood, Ugg boots, a leather-bound Bible, a GPS bracket, a pair of J. Crew earrings, a J. Crew bracelet, Heartbreaker jeans, Nordstrom underwear and a Michael Bublé Christmas CD. The total value of stolen property in that vehicle was $980. An officer saw two suspicious men on bicycles.
• A 29-year-old woman said someone stole her $5,000 MacBook Pro sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. Oct. 29. She left it in the garage in the 7000 block of Carnelian Lane after using it to fix a refrigerator. She went inside for a short time and realized she didn’t close the garage door.
• A 30-year-old Eden Prairie woman told police someone stole $300 in cash from her home. She’d left the money in a dresser and arrived home to find it missing. She said the previous evening, she’d noticed the patio glass and screen door open.

Assault

• An Edina man said another man hit him while they were working at the Lund production facility in the 7000 block of Mitchell Road. The other man said it was just horseplay. There was no evidence to support either claim. Both men were fired.

Property damage and theft

• A 36-year-old Eden Prairie man told police he arrived at an apartment in the 7000 block of Flying Cloud Drive to find some of the contents damaged. He blamed the damage on an arrangement with a friend that had turned sour. The man said he got the apartment to get away and that his wife and friends didn’t know about it. However, one of the friends helped him move in and he invited him to stay in the apartment because the friend had no job at the time. The Eden Prairie man said he bought a Beretta 9-millimeter handgun from the roommate’s brother in September and kept the gun in a holster under the sink. The relationship between the man and the friend started to become more stressed, and the man noticed the gun missing Oct. 12. He said he didn’t call police because he didn’t want to “stir things up” with the friend. A short time later he informed the friend that he planned to move out. On Oct. 18, he returned to the apartment to find the apartment messed up, clothes everywhere and a new flat screen TV that had been cracked and bent. The case is under investigation.