Torrance Police Department has released the following important message concerning residential crimes in Torrance.
Over the past several months, our City of Torrance has experienced an increase of daytime residential burglaries. The most common method of this increased trend seems to be where a suspect knocks on the door to the residence to see if anyone is home. If no one answers the door, the suspect walks to the rear of the house and forcibly enters via a rear door or window. Once inside, the suspect ransacks the residence and takes items that are easy to flee with (i.e. cash, jewelry, video games, laptop computers, etc). The suspect will make several trips to an awaiting vehicle, then flee the area with another suspect driving the car.
We are asking our community to be more aware of people in their neighborhood who they do not recognize as residents of the block, and/or, individuals acting suspicious.
For example, in two of our recent daytime burglaries, neighbors saw a subject in a neighbor's backyard that they did not recognize as a resident of the house and did not call us. Both of these houses were broken into.
If you can be a good witness, please get the suspect's description, the suspect vehicle description (a license plate would be great) and possibly a direction of travel if you see the vehicle leave the area. Please DO NOT confront any suspect(s) or ask them "what they are doing" or tell them that you are "calling the police."
Please call the Torrance Police Department (310-328-3456) regardless of how insignificant you feel a situation may be. This may result in an arrest of a burglar.
During the week April 1, 2010 through April 7, 2010, the following crimes were reported in Southeast Torrance:
23900 Pennsylvania Ave April 7th Residential Burglary entry via window, ransacked. jewelry and laptop put in bag by suspect but fled when owners returned home.
23000 Arlington Ave April 4-5 Stolen Vehicle 2002 Honda Civic
1700 234th St April 2nd Residential Burglary entry via unlocked rear door, heavily ransacked. laptop, P3 console, $1800 in coins and $10K baseball card collection
1800 Sepulveda Blvd April 2nd Residential Burglary entry via possible unlocked door, heavily ransacked. tv, jewelry, camera, $5k and 3 puppies.
At least two homes were burglarized on Thursday, April 7th in the Old Torrance area,
Madrid, Beech. It may have been a group of three individuals with one as the lookout
while the other two are in the house. Watch out for the old trick on knocking on the
door and trying to sell you something when in reality they hope nobody is home. Don't be hesitant to call Torrance Police if you think something is wrong.
Over the past several months, our City of Torrance has experienced an increase of daytime residential burglaries. The most common method of this increased trend seems to be where a suspect knocks on the door to the residence to see if anyone is home. If no one answers the door, the suspect walks to the rear of the house and forcibly enters via a rear door or window. Once inside, the suspect ransacks the residence and takes items that are easy to flee with (i.e. cash, jewelry, video games, laptop computers, etc). The suspect will make several trips to an awaiting vehicle, then flee the area with another suspect driving the car.
We are asking our community to be more aware of people in their neighborhood who they do not recognize as residents of the block, and/or, individuals acting suspicious.
For example, in two of our recent daytime burglaries, neighbors saw a subject in a neighbor's backyard that they did not recognize as a resident of the house and did not call us. Both of these houses were broken into.
If you can be a good witness, please get the suspect's description, the suspect vehicle description (a license plate would be great) and possibly a direction of travel if you see the vehicle leave the area. Please DO NOT confront any suspect(s) or ask them "what they are doing" or tell them that you are "calling the police."
Please call the Torrance Police Department (310-328-3456) regardless of how insignificant you feel a situation may be. This may result in an arrest of a burglar.
During the week April 1, 2010 through April 7, 2010, the following crimes were reported in Southeast Torrance:
23900 Pennsylvania Ave April 7th Residential Burglary entry via window, ransacked. jewelry and laptop put in bag by suspect but fled when owners returned home.
23000 Arlington Ave April 4-5 Stolen Vehicle 2002 Honda Civic
1700 234th St April 2nd Residential Burglary entry via unlocked rear door, heavily ransacked. laptop, P3 console, $1800 in coins and $10K baseball card collection
1800 Sepulveda Blvd April 2nd Residential Burglary entry via possible unlocked door, heavily ransacked. tv, jewelry, camera, $5k and 3 puppies.
At least two homes were burglarized on Thursday, April 7th in the Old Torrance area,
Madrid, Beech. It may have been a group of three individuals with one as the lookout
while the other two are in the house. Watch out for the old trick on knocking on the
door and trying to sell you something when in reality they hope nobody is home. Don't be hesitant to call Torrance Police if you think something is wrong.
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