Crime & Safety

Blotter: You Have the Wrong Garage

A weekly selection of incidents drawn from Hopkins police files.

Monday, Jan. 9

  • 6:26 a.m. — Someone went through a vehicle parked on the 500 block of Sunnyside Lane. Nothing was taken.
  • 9:18 a.m. — A vehicle parked on the 100 block of Homedale Road was broken into and had $300 worth of property stolen.
  • 1:28 a.m. — A wallet with about $60 was stolen from .
  • 10:03 p.m. — A Lake Street Northeast resident came home to find a vehicle parked in his garage. The vehicle left when he knocked on its windows. 

Tuesday, Jan. 10

  • 11:58 a.m. — An iPod and iPhone were stolen at the .
  • 12:18 p.m. — Someone stole a pair of headphones from an Oakwood Road home.

Wednesday, Jan. 11

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  • 1:27 p.m. — Police responded to a report of a shoplifter at .
  • 3:47 p.m. — Officers went to following a report of an unspecified assault.
  • 4:40 p.m. — A drunk man was reported wandering the halls of Mark I Apartments. The man was a resident in one of the units there. There was another man in the apartment who appeared to be drunk, as well.

Thursday, Jan. 12

  • 8:33 p.m. — A resident told police that he found a package that was never delivered to him in a trash bin outside his building, resulting in a $3,000 loss.
  • 9:12 p.m. — Someone stole a $600 phone from an basketball court.

Saturday, Jan. 14

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  • 11:17 p.m. — A resident told police that someone broke into a Ford F-150 sometime over the past hour while it was parked on the 400 block of Regency Lane West. It wasn’t immediately known what items were stolen.
  • 11:38 p.m. — Police responded to another report of a vehicle break-in on the 400 block of Regency Lane West.

Sunday, Jan. 15

  • 1:49 a.m. — A 19th Avenue North resident told police she heard someone trying to open her door.
  • 10:14 a.m. — Police learned that someone stole items from a detached garage on the 300 block of Seventh Avenue North and vehicles inside the garage.
  • 10:49 a.m. — Someone stole items from a vehicle parked on the 300 block of Eighth Avenue North.

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